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AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies. The three companies were AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR Corp. |
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1958 |
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Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest at a New York City department store by an apparently deranged black woman. |
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1984 |
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A Hizbulla suicide bomber destroyed the rebuilt U.S. Embassy in Beirut. 25 people were killed. |
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1989 |
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The wreckage of a DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA was found in Niger. The plane disappeared on September 19 with 171 passengers onboard. The Paris-bound plane was believed to have been brought down by a bomb. |
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1982 |
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut. |
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1991 |
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U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. |
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1985 |
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A second major earthquake hit Mexico City. |
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Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
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1962 |
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James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted. |
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1921 |
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KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S. |
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1946 |
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The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. The original premier was delayed in 1939 due to World War 2. |
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1946 |
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WNBT-TV in New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. Scenes from "The Jolson Story" were shown. |
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1953 |
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The TV show "Letter to Loretta" premiered. The name was changed to "The Loretta Young Show" on February 14, 1954. |
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1953 |
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Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western "The Six Shooter" on NBC. |
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1955 |
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"You'll Never Be Rich" premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to "The Phil Silvers Show."
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1984 |
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"The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC-TV. |
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1881 |
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Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before. |
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1989 |
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F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa. |
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1977 |
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The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program. |
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1999 |
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Raisa Gorbachev, wife of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorvachev, died of leukemia.
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1884 |
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The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA. |
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1988 |
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The United Nations opened it 43rd General Assembly. |
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1992 |
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French voters approved the Maastricht Treaty. |
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1870 |
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The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops, leading to the unification of Italy. |
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1963 |
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly. |
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1995 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits. |
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