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1964 β Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
1969 β Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.[15]
1969 β Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1979 β The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.[16]
1991 β Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
1992 β El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
2001 β Congolese President Laurent-DΓ©sirΓ© Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2001 β US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the SpanishβAmerican War.
2002 β The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 β The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2006 β Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.[17]
2016 β Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
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