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1994  Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord to ensure Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho

1970 Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.

1961 13 civil rights activists, dubbed Freedom Riders, begin a bus trip through the South.

1959  The Grammy is presented for the first time

1953  Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize

1949 Graham Swift, British novelist (The Sweet Shop Owner, Out of this World).

1942 The United States begins food rationing.

1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea commences. 

1939 Amos Oz, Israeli novelist (The Black Box, TheThird State).

1930 Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British.

1928 Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet.

1927 A balloon soars over 40,000 feet for the first time.

1903 Bing [Harry Lillis] Crosby, singer and actor. Various dates given for his birth date.

1904  The United States takes over the construction of the Panama Canal