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Today in History
| 1766 | Britain repeals the Stamp Act. | |
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| 1799 | Napoleon Bonaparte and his army reach Mediterranean seaport of St. Jean d’Acra, only to find British warships ready to break his siege of the town. | |
| 1868 | The first postage stamp canceling machine patent is issued. | |
| 1884 | John Joseph Montgomery makes the first glider flight in Otay, Calif. | |
| 1886 | Twenty African Americans are killed in the Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi. | |
| 1891 | The British steamer Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar. | |
| 1905 | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York. | |
| 1910 | The Camp Fire Girls are founded in Lake Sebago, Maine. | |
| 1914 | Russia increases the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000. | |
| 1924 | Four Douglas army aircraft leave Los Angeles for an around the world flight. | |
| 1930 | Mob boss Al Capone is released from jail. | |
| 1942 | The Nazis begin deporting Jews to the Belsen camp. | |
| 1944 | The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombs Vienna. | |
| 1959 | The 14th Dalai Lama flees Tibet and goes to India. | |
| 1961 | The United States increases military aid and technicians to Laos. | |
| 1962 | The Soviet Union asks the United States to pull out of South Vietnam. | |
| 1966 | A U.S. submarine locates a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean. | |
| 1970 | The Army charges 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case. | |
| 1972 | Nixon asks Congress to halt busing in order to achieve desegregation. | |
| 1973 | Twenty are killed in Cambodia when a bomb goes off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol. | |
| 1973 | First POWs are released from the “Hanoi Hilton” in Hanoi, North Vietnam. | |
| 1985 | PReagan agrees to a joint study with Canada on acid rain. | |
| 1992 | White South Africans approve constitutional reforms giving legal equality to blacks. |
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