1721 |
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The Peace of Nystad ends the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region. |
1781 |
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The French fleet arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the American Revolution. |
1813 |
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Creek Indians massacre over 500 whites at Fort Mims, Alabama. |
1861 |
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Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. Lincoln overrules the general. |
1932 |
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Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag. |
1944 |
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Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops. |
1963 |
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A Hot Line communications link is installed between Moscow and Washington, DC. |
1967 |
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The US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice. |
1982 |
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Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) is forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. |
1983 |
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Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space. |
1986 |
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The KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days. |
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