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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.
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