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1971 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first mission to the Salyut 1 space station.

1969 Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy.

1966 President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.

1954 The Army-McCarthy hearings begin.

1950 Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.

1945 The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.

1932 Jim Fixx, runner and writer who popularized running as a form of exercise in the 1970s.

1928 Shirley Temple Black, child actress, later U.S. ambassador.

1926 Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Mercury and Gemini astronaut, died in an accident on Apollo 1.

1926 J.P. Donleavy, American-born Irish writer (The Ginger Man).

1924 The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.

1920 The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara.

1915 The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.

1914 The Federals defeat Kansas City 9-1 in the first major league game to be played in Chicago’s Weeghman Park, later renamed Wrigley Field.

1902 Halldór Laxness, Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic novelist (The Fish Can Sing, Paradise Reclaimed).