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EIGroup releases a biographical article on Billy Mitchell, whose public court martial for insubordination embarrases Army and Navy brass and demonstrates to the American public the need for the creation of the United States Air Force as a separate branch of the armed services. |
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Sidney Gottlieb, the Government chemist who brought LSD to C.I.A. and dosed Americans with psychedelics in the name of national security, dies at the age of 80 in Washington, VA |
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Lt. Hiroo Onoda, who was sent to the Philippine island of Lubang to spy on U.S. troops in 1944, surrenders his sword to Ferdinand Marcos. He had remained in the jungle for nearly three decades. |
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Fulgencio Batista, a political force in Cuba since 1934, stages a successful military coup overthrowing Carlos Prio Socarras who was elected in 1948. |
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US Begins fire bombing of civilians win Tokyo. |
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Gandhi is arrested for sedition. |
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Yuan Shikai becomes the president of China. |
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A U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Edison did not invent the movie camera, and could not exericse monopoly power over its use. |
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US Senate officially ends Mexican War (1846-1848) with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. |
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Thomas Jefferson is elected president of the American Philosophical Society. |
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Thomas Jefferson is appointed chief minister to France, suceeding Benjamin Franklin. |
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