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Five men are arrested in Cairo for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. |
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Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison. |
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Svetlana Allilujeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter, requests political asylum in the United States.
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Sgt. Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" hits Number 1 on the billboard charts and stays there for 13 weeks.
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Five German Americans are convicted of espionage for assisting the escape of a German POW in Michigan. |
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FDR establishes "Bank Holiday" |
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Alan Greenspan is born. |
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The semi-submersible CSS David attacks the USS Memphis on the North Edisto River. |
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The Alamo falls to the Mexican Army. |
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On page 5 of the "1783 Catalog of Books", Thomas Jefferson states that he owns 2,640 books. |
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The Magellan expedition, which set sail from Spain on September 20, 1519, lands on the island of Guam. The men of the expedition had exhausted their food supplies and were eating boot leather and sawdust. |
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