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A group of Indian army veterans launch the political party Rashtriya Raksha Dal. |
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1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500. |
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Garth Brooks plays to 750,000 people in Central Park. |
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World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
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U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. |
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Rioting in New York Citys Tompkins Square Park. |
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Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japans first astronauts. |
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The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. |
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United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal. |
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Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars. |
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NBC airs the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television. |
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California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. |
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Vietnam War: The Peoples Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. |
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Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan. |
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Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. |
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Côte dIvoire becomes independent. |
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Cent (United States coin): Lincoln Memorial Design on reverse debuted |
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Explorer program: Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
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Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan. |
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Thor Heyerdahls balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. |
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The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). |
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President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. |
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IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). |
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World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. |
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Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War Two |
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The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs day. |
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The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. |
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The opening of the Poor Mans Palace in Manchester. |
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Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. |
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Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks. |
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The United States War Department is established. |
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George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. |
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The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Gangut. |
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The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. |
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