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2000
Slobodan Milosevic, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, resigns in the wake of mass protest demonstrations.
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1988
Brazil’s Constituent Assembly authorizes the nation’s new constitution.
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1986
Britain’s The Sunday Times newspaper publishes details of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons development program.
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1970
Members of the Quebec Liberation Front (QLF) kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, resulting in the October Crisis and Canada’s first peacetime use of the War Measures Act.
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The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is established.
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1969
Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuts on BBC One.
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1968
Police attack civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland; the event is considered to be the beginning of "The Troubles."
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1966
A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit. Radiation is contained.
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1965
Mario Lemieux, hockey player, led Pittsburgh Penguins to consecutive Stanley Cups (1991-92).
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U.S. forces in Saigon receive permission to use tear gas.
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1963
Laura Davies, England’s top professional female golfer.
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1962
The first James Bond film, Dr. No starring Sean Connery, debuts.
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1959
Maya Lin, American architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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1957
Bernie Mac, comedian, actor; member of the Original Kings of Comedy.
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1952
Clive Barker, author, director (Hellraiser, Candyman).