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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.