| 2006 |
Today co-host Matt Lauer signs a 5-year, $13 million contract with NBC.
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| 1996 |
Jessica Dubroff, 7-year-old pilot attempting to set a record for the youngest person to fly cross-country, is killed, along with her father, when their plane crashes shortly after takeoff, in Cheyenne, WY.
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1981 |
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Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli are married.
(photo credit: Hal Leonard)
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1981 |
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US president Ronald Reagan returns to the White House after spending 12 days in the hospital, following an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
(photo credit: NARA)
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| 1979 |
Rebels depose Ugandan president Idi Amin.
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| 1978 |
Microsoft announces its COBOL-80 computer programming language.
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| 1970 |
Apollo 13 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, FL.
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| 1968 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law.
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| 1947 |
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in a major league baseball game.
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| 1945 |
American forces liberate survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, during WWII.
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| 1921 |
The first live radio sports contest is broadcast, as station KDKA in Pittsburgh covers a boxing match.
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| 1921 |
The German national flag is adopted.
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| 1899 |
The Spanish-American War ends.
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| 1845 |
Fire destroys a large part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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| 1689 |
Mary II and William III are crowned rulers ofEngland.
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| 1506 |
Construction begins on the new Vatican basilica.
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