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2013 The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begin

1998  101 people die in the Eschede train disaster

1982  The Israeli ambassador to the U.K. is shot

1973  The world's first supersonic airliner crashe

1974 Charles Colson, an aide to President Richard Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice.

1969 74 American sailors die when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.

1965 Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule.

1952 A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea is put down by American troops.

1942 Japanese carrier-based planes strafe Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands as a diversion of the attack on Midway Island.

1940 The German Luftwaffe hits Paris with 1,100 bombs.

1938 The German Third Reich votes to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.”

1936 Larry McMurtry, novelist (The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment).

1928 Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin dies as a result of a bomb blast set off by the Japanese.

1926 Allen Ginsberg, American poet (Howl).

1923 In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote.

1922 Alain Resnais, French film director.

1918 The Finnish Parliament ratifies a treaty with Germany.

1906 Josephine Baker, dancer and singer.

1904 Charles R. Drew, American physician, researcher of blood plasma.

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