Hans Geiger, German physicist who introduced the first successful radiation detector (the Geiger counter), born (1882)

Elie Wiesel, author (Souls on Fire) and Nazi war criminal hunter (Nobel 1986), born (1928)

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James Dean, American film actor (Rebel Without a Cause) killed in car crash (1955)

Virgil Thomson, American composer/ critic (The River), died (1989)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the New Deal (1933)

British, French, German and Italian leaders decided to appease Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland (1938)

Mao-Tse Tung became Chairman of People's Republic of China 1949)

Water Power first used to generate electricity in Wisconsin (1882)

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USS Columbia set sail on first American circumnavigation of the earth (1787)

First book printed Johann Guttenberg's Bible (1452)

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Anesthetic ether used publicly for first time by Dr. William Morton (1846)

General Colin Powell retired from the U.S. military at age 56 having achieved the top rank of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993)

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The Berlin Airlift came to an end (1949)

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First manned rocket flight by German auto maker Fritz von Opel (1939)

James Meredith was the first black man to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi (1962)

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