| 1987 - | The USSR began major changes to its economy to make it more like a Western economy |
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| 1981 - | The BBC announced it had to make cutbacks to its foreign language radio services |
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| 1973 - | The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev visited France |
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| 1968 - | Tony Hancock, the famous English comedian, died |
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| 1962 - | The death penalty was announced in the Soviet Union for anyone dealing in gold & currency |
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| 1950 - | North Korean troops moved into South Korea |
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| 1945 - | The United Nations was founded |
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| 1910 - | Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes) |
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| 1909 - | George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament |
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| 1908 - | Willard Van Orman Quine, US mathematician and logicial philosopher, was born |
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| 1905 - | Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation |
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| 1903 - | Yanks and White Sox end deadlocked at 6-Jun in 18 |
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| 1903 - | Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh Jan-00 and 5-3 |
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| 1876 - | General George Custer was killed at the battle of The Little Big Horn |
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| 1867 - | Barbed wire was patented in the United States |
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| 1648 - | One thousand Jews of Tulchin, Poland, were tortured and massacred by Cossacks |
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