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After almost 50 years in power, Fidel Castro announces that he will not seek re-election as President of Cuba. |
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Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala. |
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Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity." |
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NASAs Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. |
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An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. |
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The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station. |
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Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital. |
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Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148. |
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Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport, in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking situation, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat. |
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The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. |
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Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. |
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Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. |
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World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima. |
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World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins. |
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World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people. |
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World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps. |
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World War II: The Afrika Korps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in North Africa, is formed. |
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During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. |
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World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins. Plans for mutiny in the British Indian army, the Ghadar Conspiracy, are uncovered in India. |
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Kansas becomes the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. |
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The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison. |
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Knights of Pythias are founded in Washington, DC by Justus H. Rathbone. |
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Serfdom is abolished in Russia. |
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The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. |
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The Donner Party is rescued. |
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In Austin, Texas the newly-formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas annexation by the United States. |
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British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III. |
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In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddart. |
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England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York. |
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The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. |
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Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden. |
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Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. |
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