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1995 In Africa, Rwandan troops kill thousands of Hutu refugees in Kibeho.

1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly news anchor on network television.

1955 Congress orders all U.S. coins to bear the motto “In God We Trust.”

1954 The Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin. They are broadcast on television.

1944 Allies launch major attack against the Japanese in Hollandia, New Guinea.

1943 Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

1931 Egypt signs treaty of friendship with Iraq.

1922 Charles Mingus, jazz bassist.

1918 Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man (8’11.1″).

1918 British naval forces attempt to sink block-ships in the German U-boat bases at the Battle of Zeebrugge.

1916 Yehudi Menuhin, violinist.

1915 At the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans use poison gas for the first time.

1904 J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, director of the Manhattan Project.