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1992  The Italian mafia murder Giovanni Falcone

1969  The Who release Tommy

1960 Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1951  Delegates of the Dalai Lama sign the Seventeen Point Agreement

1949 The Federal Republic of West Germany is proclaimed.

1947 Jane Kenyon, poet (Let Evening Come, Otherwise).

1945 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.

1934 Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.

1934 Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers. 

1928 Rosemary Clooney, singer.

1920 Helen O’Connell, big band vocalist.

1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

1910 Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.

1908 John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.

1900 Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.