On this day :
1969 Woodstock Music Festival concludes, 1785 Connecticut Patriot Jonathan Trumbull dies, 1915 Charles Kettering receives patent for electric selfstarter, 1862 Dakota uprising begins in Minnesota, 1962 East Germans kill man trying to cross Berlin Wall, 1984 A serial rapist strikes in England, 1999 Earthquake exposes weak infrastructure, 1943 Patton wins race to Messina, 1978 Balloon crosses the Atlantic, 1987 Hitlers last living henchman dies, 1999 Deadly earthquake strikes Turkey, 1943 Robert De Niro born, 1993 Random House gives Colin Powell largest autobiography advance to date, 1974 The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace tops the US pop charts, 1877 Billy the Kid kills his first man, 1998 Clinton testifies before grand jury, 1933 Lou Gehrig goes the distance, 1968 117000 combat missions flown over North Vietnam in three years, 1973 US troops to withdraw from Thailand, 1914 Russian troops invade East Prussia, 1942 Carlsons Raiders land on Makin Island,
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