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2002
Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.
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1991
South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
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1989
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
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1984
Republican Robert Dole is elected Senate majority leader.
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1980
Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War); Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy.
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1975
East Timor declares independence from Portugal.
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1971
The Anglican Church ordains the first two women as priests.
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1963
Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.
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1962
Jon Stewart, satirist, writer, director, author, television host, comedian; host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central.
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1961
Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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1950
In Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch attack on UN forces.
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1948
Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston.
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1944
Rita Mae Brown, novelist.
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The first shipment of supplies reach Antwerp by convoy, a new route for the Allies.
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1943
Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims.