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Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission
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Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
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Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
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In a futile effort to topple President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed...
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Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declar...
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At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
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World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
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The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
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Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
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