On this day :
1991 Magic Johnson announces he is HIVpositive, 1776 Post office stays in the Franklin family, 1965 Art Arfons sets landspeed record, 1861 Battle of Belmont Missouri, 1957 Gaither Report calls for more US missiles and fallout shelters, 1983 A family is brutally murdered, 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses, 1885 Canadas transcontinental railway completed, 1940 Tacoma Bridge collapses, 1944 FDR reelected a record third time, 1989 Two African American firsts in politics, 1980 King of Cool Steve McQueen dies, 1913 French novelist Albert Camus is born, 1943 Singersongwriter Joni Mitchell is born, 1916 Jeannette Rankin becomes first US congresswoman, 1944 FDR wins unprecedented fourth term, 1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV, 1964 US intelligence asserts numbers of North Vietnamese in South Vietnam growing, 1966 McNamara shouted down at Harvard speech, 1972 Nixon reelected president, 1914 First issue of The New Republic published, 1944 Soviet master spy is hanged by the Japanese,
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