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2012
US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is attacked and burned down; 4 Americans are killed including the US ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens.
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2007
Russia detonates a nano-bomb; dubbed the “Father of All Bombs,” it is the largest non-nuclear weapon developed to date.
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2005
Israel completes its unilateral disengagement of all Israeli civilians and military from the Gaza Strip.
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2001
In an unprecedented, highly coordinated attack, terrorists hijack four U.S. passenger airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York and one into the Pentagon, killing thousands. The fourth airliner, headed toward Washington likely to strike the White House or Capitol, is crashed just over 100 miles away in Pennsylvania after passengers storm the cockpit and overtake the hijackers.
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1974
Haile Selassie I is deposed from the Ethiopian throne.
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1967
Harry Connick Jr., Grammy and Emmy award-winning singer, musician, actor.
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1966
Princess Akishino, nee Kiko Kawashima, wife of Prince Akishino, second son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan. She is only the second commoner to marry into Japan’s royal family.
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1965
Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria since 2000.
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The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrives in South Vietnam and is stationed at An Khe.
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1962
Thurgood Marshall is appointed a judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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1944
American troops enter Luxembourg.
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1940
Theodore Olson, US Solicitor General under Pres. George W. Bush (2001-04).
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Brian DePalma, film director (Dressed to Kill, Carlito’s Way)).
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1939
Charles M. “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc.
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1937
Robert L. Crippen, US Navy captain, astronaut; former director of Kennedy Space Center.