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2009
An 8.1 earthquake causes a tidal wave that claims 189 lives in Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga.
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2008
Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 777.68 points in the wake of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual bankruptcies, the largest single-day point loss in Wall Street history.
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1992
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello impeached for corruptions; he was the youngest president in the nation’s history, taking office at age 40 in 1990.
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1990
The YF-22, later named F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
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1979
John Paul II becomes the first pope ever to visit Ireland.
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1971
Oman joins the Arab League.
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1968
Samir Soni, Indian actor, model; in 2012 won Indian Telly Award, Boroplus Gold Award and ITA Award for Best Actor, as well Favorite Drama Actor in India’s People’s Choice Awards.
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1966
Chevrolet introduces the Camaro, which will become an iconic car.
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1962
The popular Argentinian comic strip Mafalda beings publication, in the weekly Primera Plana; focusing on a six-year-old girl (Mafalda) and her friends, it has been called the Argentinian Peanuts.
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Canada launches its first satellite, Alouette 1.
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1960
General Douglas MacArthur officially returns Seoul, South Korea, to President Syngman Rhee.
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1955
Ann Bancroft, explorer, author; first woman to reach North Pole on foot nd by sled and first woman to cross both polar ice caps.
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1951
Michelle Bachelet, first woman president of Chile (2006-10).
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1950
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev repeatedly disrupts a UN General Assembly meeting with his violent outbursts over intervention in the Belgian Congo, US U2 spy planes, and arms control.
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1948
Bryant Gumbel, broadcast journalist; co-host of NBC’s Today (1982-97), for which he won several Emmy Awards.