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1994
North Korea and the US sign an agreement requiring North Korea to halts its nuclear weapons program and agree to international inspections.
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1983
The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada.
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1979
Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigns over disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policies related to the Palestinians.
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1969
Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain; presently (2013) First Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Supreme Commander, he is heir apparent to the Bahrain kingdom.
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1967
The “March on the Pentagon,” protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters.
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1961
Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400.
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1959
The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in Manhattan.
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1956
Carrie Fisher, actress, author, screenwriter; best known as Prince Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and he bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge; daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.
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1952
Patti Davis, actress, author; daughter of former US Pres. Ronald Reagan.
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1950
Ronald McNair, astronaut; died when Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch on Jan. 2, 1986.
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North Korean Premier Kim Il-Sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung.
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1942
Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings.
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1940
Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
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1939
As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the underground war room in London.
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1938
Carl Brewer, Canadian hockey player; won three Stanley Cups (1962-64) as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs.