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1992 |
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Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison. |
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1513 |
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Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore. |
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1902 |
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The first motion picture theatre opened in Los Angeles with the name Electric Theatre. |
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1947 |
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"The Big Story" debuted on NBC radio. It was on the air for eight years. |
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1956 |
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"The Edge of Night" and "As the World Turns" debuted on CBS-TV. |
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1978 |
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The first episode of "Dallas" aired on CBS. |
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1996 |
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Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity union leader who became Poland's first post-war democratic president. |
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1872 |
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G.B. Brayton received a patent for the gas-powered streetcar. |
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1889 |
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Charles Hall patented aluminum. |
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1935 |
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Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR. |
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1988 |
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U.S. Special Prosecutor James McKay declined to indict Attorney General Edwin Meese for criminal wrongdoing. |
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1513 |
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Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore. |
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1932 |
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A $50,000 ransom was paid for the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh. He child was not returned and was found dead the next month. |
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1972 |
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Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine. |
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1963 |
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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King began the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, AL.
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Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity union leader who became Poland's first post-war democratic president. |
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1860 |
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The first Italian Parliament met in Turin. |
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1877 |
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The first Egg Roll was held on the grounds of the White House in Washington, DC. |
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1914 |
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The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced plans to divide the country into 12 districts. |
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1947 |
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The U.N. Security Council voted to appoint the U.S. as trustee for former Japanese-held Pacific Islands. |
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1960 |
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France signed an agreement with Madagascar that proclaimed the country an independent state within the French community. |
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1967 |
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In Peking, hundreds of thousands demonstrated against Mao foe Liu Shao-chi. |
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| 1984 |
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In Jerusalem, three Arab gunmen wounded 48 people when they opened fire into a crowd of shoppers. |
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| 1986 |
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On a TWA airliner flying from Rome to Athens a bomb exploded under a seat killing four Americans. |
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| 1989 |
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General Prosper Avril, Haiti's military leader, survived a coup attempt. The attempt was apparently provoked by Avril's U.S.-backed efforts to fight drug trafficking. |
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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq. |
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| 1996 |
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Russia and Belarus signed a treaty that created a political and economic alliance in an effort to reunite the two former Soviet republics. |
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1958 |
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The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA. |
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1984 |
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John Thompson became the first black coach to lead his team to the NCAA college basketball championship. |
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1995 |
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The costliest strike in professional sports history ended when baseball owners agreed to let players play without a contract. |
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1910 |
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Karl Harris perfected the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber. |
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1985 |
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The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season. |
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1792 |
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The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act to regulate the coins of the United States. The act authorized $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime to be minted. |
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1987 |
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The speed limit on U.S. interstate highways was increased to 65 miles per hour in limited areas. |
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1983 |
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The New Jersey Transit strike that began on March 1 came to an end. |
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1905 |
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The Simplon rail tunnel officially opened. The tunnel went under the Alps and linked Switzerland and Italy. |
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1801 |
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During the Napoleonic Wars, the Danish fleet was destroyed by the British at the Battle of Copenhagen. |
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1865 |
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Confederate President Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA. |
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1917 |
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress. |
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1944 |
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The Soviet Union announced that its troops had crossed the Prut River and entered Romania. |
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1951 |
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U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower assumed command of all allied forces in the Western Mediterranean area and Europe. |
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1966 |
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South Vietnamese troops joined in demonstrations at Hue and Da Nang for an end to military rule. |
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1981 |
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In Lebanon, thirty-seven people were reported killed during fighting in the cities of Beirut and Zahle. It was the worst violence since the 1976 cease fire. |
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1982 |
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Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back. |
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1989 |
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An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over. |
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2002 |
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Israeli troops surrounded the Church of the Nativity. More than 200 Palestinians had taken refuge at the church when Israel invaded Bethlehem. |
