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45 years ago today, Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan president Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, Samantha Boscarino, an American actress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, a major earthquake and tsunami devastated communities around the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Annie Lennox, a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, Humphrey Bogart, an American actor, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded guilty to a corruption charge. (He served 10 months in prison.) (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Richard Herrick became the recipient in the world's first successful human organ transplant. The organ donor was his identical twin brother, Ronald Lee Herrick. (en.wikipedia.org)
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130 years ago today, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, was first performed in Paris. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, the twin brothers Robin and Maurice Gibb were born. They achieved worldwide fame as members of the pop group Bee Gees. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Dr. Sam Sheppard is convicted for beating his wife, Marilyn, to death inside their suburban home in Cleveland, Ohio five months earlier. (en.wikipedia.org)
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200 years ago today, James Parkinson, an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, Portugal transferred the sovereignty over Macau, which it had administered since the mid–16th century, to China. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as vice president, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who became president when Richard M. Nixon resigned. (en.wikipedia.org)
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190 years ago today, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway opened as the first public railway on the island of Ireland. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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85 years ago today, the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled because its commander, Hans Langsdorff, was unwilling to risk the lives of his crew. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Nazi Germany launched a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the 'Battle of the Bulge'. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric gravity dam, began. It spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. (en.wikipedia.org)
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225 years ago today, George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States, military officer, and farmer, died. He served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. (en.wikipedia.org)
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900 years ago today, Pope Callixtus II, the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from February 1119 to his death in 1124, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter and art theorist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Alexander Parvus, a Marxist theoretician, publicist, and controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today, NATO decided to offer the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact a mutual limitation of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missiles amidst the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (en.wikipedia.org)
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In case of refusal, NATO planned to deploy more medium-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe after the Euromissile Crisis.

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105 years ago today, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields. (www.loc.gov)
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235 years ago today, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, was chartered. (en.wikipedia.org)
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