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1991
In Madras, India, a suicide bomber kills the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi.
1979
Violent clashes follow the lenient sentencing for Harvey Milk's murderer
1970
The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.
1961
Governor John Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.
1951
The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea.
1944
Mary Bourke Robinson, first woman president of Ireland (1990-1997).
1941
The first U.S. ship, the S.S.
Robin Moor
, is sunk by a U-boat.
1940
British forces attack German General Erwin Rommel‘s 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France.
1932
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic
1927
Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic.
1926
Robert Creeley, poet.
1921
Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist.
1917
Raymond Burr, actor (
Perry Mason
).
1909
Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, artist.
1904
FIFA, the world governing body of association football, is founded
1902
Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born architect.
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