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Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by American Airlines. |
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Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the largest company on the planet. |
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Heath High School shooting: Michael Carneal opens fire on a group of his fellow students at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and wounding five. |
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Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. |
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Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed. |
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Right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed forces Movement (RAM) attempt to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino by a bloody coup attempt. |
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Cold War: East Germanys parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state. |
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Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
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NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom. |
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At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. |
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Michael Jackson releases his second solo album Thriller, which became the biggest selling album of all time. |
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A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on-board. |
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TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on-board. |
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Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia. |
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Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. |
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Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir. |
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Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. |
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The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders. |
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Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam. |
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Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India. |
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The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea. |
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Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent. |
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Central African Republic becomes independent from France. |
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Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns. |
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American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the citys racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
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The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation. |
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World War II: Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signed Administrative Order 9 creating the Civil Air Patrol. |
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In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev. |
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World War I aftermath: - The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements. |
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Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28). National Council of Romanians in Banat voted union with the Kingdom of Romania. National Council of Romanians in Transylvania voted union with the Kingdom of Romania. |
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Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. |
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Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28). |
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. |
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Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. |
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Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the first Balkan war, is annexed by Greece. |
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American Old West - Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy. |
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Johannes Brahms presents his Ein deutsches Requiem in Austria. |
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In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round. |
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Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales |
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French philhellene Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege. |
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U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution). |
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Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil. |
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The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued. |
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The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromųy in Norway. |
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Portugal regains its independence from Spain and Joćo IV of Portugal becomes king. |
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Henry V of England enters Paris. |
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The Lombard League is formed in northern Italy. |
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Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. |
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