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Today in History.




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1949
Chinese Communists occupy Tientsin after a 27-hour battle with Nationalist forces.
1965
Sir Winston Churchill suffers a severe stroke.
1967
Some 462 Yale faculty members call for an end to the bombing in North Vietnam.

1973
Four of six remaining Watergate defendants plead guilty.
1973
US President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action by US troops in Vietnam.
1975
The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of independence and granting the country independence from Portugal.
1976
Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life in prison for her failed attempt to assassinate US President Gerald Ford.
1991
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II approves Australia instituting its own Victoria Cross honors system, the first county in the British Commonwealth permitted to do so.

1991
UN deadline for Iraq to withdraw its forces from occupied Kuwait passes, setting the stage for Operation Desert Storm.
1992
Slovenia and Croatia's independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is recognized by the international community.


Joke of the Day

"I thought I told you to keep an eye on your cousin," the mother said. "Where is he?"

"Well," her son replied thoughtfully, "if he knows as much about canoeing as he thinks he does, he's out canoeing. If he knows as little as I think he does, he's out swimming."