In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, even though fighting had stopped months earlier.
In 1914, German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
In 1918, Britain opened its offesive on the Western front during World War I.
In 1920, America's first commercial radio station, 8MK in Detroit (later WWJ), began daily broadcasting.
In 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
In 1948, the United States ordered the expulsion of the Soviet consul general in New York, Jacob Lomakin, accusing him of attempting to force the return of two consular employees to the Soviet Union against their will.
In 1953, the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had conducted a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
In 1955, hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
In 1968. the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
In 1977, the United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages.
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Actor Sam Melville (1940)
Musician Isaac Hayes (1942)
The prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi (1944)
CBS newscaster Connie Chung (1946)
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"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous."
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George Gissing, English author and critic (1857-1903)