| 2009 | Pop singer Michael Jackson dies of heart failure at age 50 in Los Angeles.
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| 2009 | Actress Farrah Fawcett dies of cancer at age 62.
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| 2000 | Tobacco, beer and food producer Philip Morris announces plans to buy Nabisco for $14.9 billion.
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| 1996 | 19 Americans are killed and hundreds wounded when a truck bomb explodes at a US military base in Saudi Arabia.
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| 1995 | Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, dies at age 87.
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| 1993 | Kim Campbell becomes the first woman elected Prime Minister of Canada .
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| 1988 | Mildred Gillars, aka Nazi propaganda broadcaster Axis Sally, dies in Columbus, OH, at age 87.
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| 1980 | Bob Griese, quarterback of the Miami Dolphins for 14 seasons, announces his retirement.
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| 1966 | The daytime serial Dark Shadows premieres on ABC-TV.
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| 1962 | Non-denominational prayer in public schools is ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
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| 1951 | CBS broadcasts the world's first commercial color TV program.
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| 1950 | The Korean War begins with troops from the communist North invading the South.
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| 1942 | Bremen, Germany, takes a pounding by nearly 1,000 British RAF bombers during WWII.
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| 1876 | Colonel George Armstrong Custer, along with 200 of his troops, dies in a battle with Sioux Indians at Little Bighorn, MT.
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| 1868 | Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina rejoin the Union, following the US Civil War.
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| 1844 | John Tyler becomes the first US president to marry in office, as he exchanges wedding vows with Julia Gardiner.
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| 1788 | The Virginia colony ratifies the US Constitution.
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