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| 1820 | Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was born in Florence, Italy. |
| 1870 | Manitoba entered the confederation as a Canadian province. |
| 1907 | Actress Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Conn. |
| 1932 | The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J. |
| 1943 | Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II. |
| 1949 | The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin blockade.
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| 1965 | West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations. |
| 1970 | The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice. |
| 1972 | The album "Exile on Main St." by the Rolling Stones was released. |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal. (In 2008, the pope's longtime private secretary revealed that the pontiff had been lightly wounded.) |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. |
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| 2003 | Suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 26 people, including nine U.S. citizens. |
| 2003 | Fifty-nine Texas House Democrats fled to Oklahoma to prevent passage of a congressional redistricting bill. |
| 2008 | An earthquake in China's Sichuan province killed some 70,000 people. |
| 2009 | Five Miami men were convicted in a plot to blow up FBI buildings and Chicago's Sears Tower. |
| 2011 | A German court convicted retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk of being an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. (Demjanjuk, who maintained his innocence, died in 2012.) |
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