On this day :
1469 Niccolo Machiavelli born, 1775 Dartmouth tells Martin to organize North Carolina Loyalists, 1980 MADD founders daughter killed by drunk driver, 1863 Confederates take Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville, 1951 Congressional hearings on General MacArthur, 1992 Exxon executive is murdered, 2007 British girl goes missing in Portugal, 1962 Trains collide near Tokyo, 1946 Japanese war crimes trial begins, 1947 New Japanese constitution goes into effect, 1952 Fletcher lands on the North Pole, 1948 US Supreme Court decides Paramount antitrust case, 1810 Lord Byron swims the Hellespont, 1933 James Brown is born, 1859 Cowboy author Andy Adams is born, 1940 FDR addresses thousands of Democratic women, 1961 JFK receives honorary degree, 1986 Shoemaker becomes oldest man to win Kentucky Derby, 1965 173rd Airborne Brigade deploys to South Vietnam, 1968 Paris is chosen as site for peace talks, 1915 AustroGerman forces drive Russians out of the Carpathians, 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea begins,
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