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1982
A British submarine sinks Argentina’s only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War.
1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain.
1971
James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr.‘s assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt.
1968
After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.
1952
The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole.
1948
The Supreme Court rules that movie studios must sell off its theaters, breaking apart a huge monopoly forming within the film industry.
1933
James Brown, American singer and songwriter.
1926
U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua.
1912
May Sarton, poet and writer.
1903
Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.
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