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1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a six year term as Nicaragua’s president.

1982 In accordance with the Camp David agreements, Israel completes a withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula.

1980 President Jimmy Carter tells the American people about the hostage rescue disaster in Iran.

1971 The country of Bangladesh is established.

1962 A U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon.

1960 The first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth is completed by a Triton submarine.

1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway–linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes–opens to shipping.

1956 Elvis Presley‘s “Heartbreak Hotel” goes to number one on the charts.

1953 The magazine Nature publishes an article by biologists Francis Crick and James Watson, describing the “double helix” of DNA.

1951 After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on “Gloucester Hill,” in Korea.

1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River.

1938 A seeing eye dog is used for the first time.

1926 Puccini’s opera Turandot premiers at La Scala in Milan with Arturo Toscanini conducting.

1926 In Iran, Reza Khan is crowned Shah and chooses the name “Pahlavi.”

1925 General Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany.

1917 Ella Fitzgerald, American singer.

1915 Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey.

1914 Ross Lockridge, Jr., novelist (Raintree Country).

1912 Gladys L. Presley, mother of Elvis Presley.

1908 Edward R. Murrow, war correspondent and newscaster.