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Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Sout...
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The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in T...
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At Plesetsk Cosmodrome nine people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democrati...
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The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
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The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
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The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
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Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
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The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
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