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1995-Federal authorities arrest Timothy McVeigh in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing. 

1975-The last South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigns. 

1966-Pfc. Milton Lee Olive is awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for bravery during the Vietnam War. 

1961-The French army revolts in Algeria. 

1960-Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil. 

1943-President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that several Doolittle pilots have been executed by Japanese. 

1932-Elaine May, comedy writer. 

1926-Elizabeth II, queen of England. 

1923-John Mortimer, British barrister and playwright (Rumpole of the Bailey). 

1918-German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, “The Red Baron,” is shot down and killed. 

1916-Bill Carlisle, the infamous ‘last train robber,’ robs a train in Hanna, Wyoming. 

1914-U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico. They will stay six months. 

1912-Marcel Camus, French film director (Black Orpheus). 

1910-Mark Twain dies at the age of 75. 

1909- Rollo May, psychologist.