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History…
1789, Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1790, Chief Justice John Jay presides over the first meeting of the Supreme Court of the United States in New York City.
1844, Eduard Adolf Strasburger German botanist (Angiospermen)
1859, Victor August Herbert Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1861, Texas voted to secede from the Union, the seventh state to do so. GOOD-BYE !! Why did we let them back in?
1865, JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar
1867, Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1893, inventor Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio, his "Black Maria," in West Orange, N.J.
1893, Giacomo Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut" premieres in Turin
1896, Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme" premieres in Turin
1898, 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
1902, China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1906, 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS
1910, 1st British labour exchange opens
1914, New York Giants & Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914l Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed
1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence.
1920l Pierre Jonquéres d'Oriola France, equestrian jumper (Olympics-gold-1952, 64)
1922, The Washington Conference in the United States approves treaties restricting submarine warfare and the use of poison gas.
1923, Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
1924, Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
1924, New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
1928. Peter Gordon Dorrell archaeologist/photographer
1928. Sam Edwards physicist
1931, born Boris Yeltsin, Russian president.
1957, Donna Adamek Duarte CA, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
1958, Maureen Madill Coleraine Northern Ireland, golfer (British Open Amateur 1979)
1959, Carolyn Hill Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's Classic)
1961, Daniel M Tani Ridley Park MD, astronaut
1961, Gina Hull Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1989 USX Golf Classic-8th)
1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.
1961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1968, during the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured in a famous news photograph.
1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile. Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran following the overthrow of the shah, claiming the shah and his American allies are "robbing us of our brains."
1979, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, whose sentence for bank robbery had been commuted by President Carter, left a federal prison near San Francisco.
2003, 'Columbia is lost,' The space shuttle Columbia breaks apart and burns while reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
Missing in Action
1966 ALM RICHARD A. PAYALLUP WA
1966 COATES DONALD L. TIGARD OR
1966 DENGLER DIETER HILLSBORO CA 07/20/66 ESCAPED ALIVE IN 98
1966 HUMPHREY GALEN F. ST JOSEPH MO DAUGHTERS GAIL AND SUSAN IN ST. JOSEPH SON GARY FORMER PEROT EDS EMPLOYEE
1966 LOHEED HUBERT B. MIDDLEBORO MA REMAINS ID'D 08/23/94
1966 LUKER RUSSELL B. LANCASTER OH
1966 PREVOST ALBERT M. NORWALK CT
1966 VLAHAKOS PETER G. AUBURN ME
1968 ADKINS CLODEN 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG DECEASED OCT 1997
1968 BLOOD HENRY F. 07/69 DIC ON PRG LIST REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 JUL 98
1968 BALAGOT ARTURO MENDOZA PHILIPPINES VOICE OF AMERICA 730305 RELSD BY DRV DECEASED
1968 GOSTAS THEODORE W. CHEYENNE WY 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE 1998
1968 HAUKNESS STEVEN A. 08/16/74 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'D 03/23/75
1968 HENDERSON ALEXANDER 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1968 JOHNSON SANDRA 03/31/68 RELEASED
1968 MURDOCK MICHAEL GEORGE ROCKFORD WA 04/06/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1968 MANHARD PHILLIP W. 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG HIGHEST RANKING CIV CAPTURED REFNO 1013 DECEASED 1998
1968 MEYER LEWIS E. SAN DIEGO CA 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE 1998
1968 NELSON MARJORIE 03/68 RELEASED
1968 OLSON BETTY ANN NEW YORK NY 09/68 DIC ON PRG LIST
1968 OLSEN ROBERT F. 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1968 PAGE RUSSELL J. 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG DECEASED
1968 RANDER DONALD J. BRONX NY 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98 REFNO 1023/1031/1014
1968 RUSHTON THOMAS SANTA MARIA CA 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1968 SPAULDING RICHARD ENID OK 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG REFNO 1023 ALIVE 99
1968 STARK LAWRENCE J. CHICAGO IL 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG REFNO 1023 ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 WEAVER EUGENE A. KENOSHA WI 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG CIA AGENT/KGB ATTEMT RECRUITMENT/VEITH
1968 WILLIS CHARLES E. 03/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1969 LUNA DONALD A. HOUSTON TX
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