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1057 | Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. |
1769 | Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica. |
1935 | Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. Read the original AP story |
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1939 | "The Wizard of Oz" premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. |
1944 | Allied forces landed in southern France during World War II. |
1945 | The Allies proclaimed V-J Day, one day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally. |
1947 | India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. |
1948 | The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed. |
1960 | The Republic of the Congo became independent of French rule. |
1971 | President Richard M. Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. |
1998 | A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility. |
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2000 | One hundred people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; 100 South Koreans visited the North. |
2001 | Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own - two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper. |
2006 | Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon. |
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