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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
).
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