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  • 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of aΒ machine translationΒ system is held in New York at the head office ofΒ IBM.[20]
  • 1955 – ContraltoΒ Marian AndersonΒ becomes the first person of color to perform at theΒ Metropolitan OperaΒ inΒ Giuseppe Verdi’sΒ Un ballo in maschera.[21]
  • 1959 – The United States recognizes the newΒ CubanΒ government ofΒ Fidel Castro.[22]
  • 1968 – Surveyor Program:Β Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off fromΒ launch complex 36A,Β Cape Canaveral.[23]
  • 1973 – In his second shooting spree of the week,Β Mark EssexΒ fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others atΒ Howard Johnson’sΒ Hotel inΒ New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.[24]
  • 1979 – Third Indochina War:Β Cambodian–Vietnamese War:Β Phnom PenhΒ falls to the advancingΒ VietnameseΒ troops, driving outΒ Pol PotΒ and theΒ Khmer Rouge.[25]
  • 1980 – U.S. PresidentΒ Jimmy CarterΒ authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out theΒ ChryslerΒ Corporation.[26]
  • 1984 – BruneiΒ becomes the sixth member of theΒ Association of Southeast Asian NationsΒ (ASEAN).[27]
  • 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyΒ launchesΒ Sakigake, Japan’s firstΒ interplanetary spacecraftΒ and the first deepΒ space probeΒ to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.[28]
  • 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of theΒ Tonton MacouteΒ inΒ HaitiΒ underΒ FranΓ§ois Duvalier, attempts aΒ coup d’Γ©tat, which ends in his arrest.[29]
  • 1993 – TheΒ Fourth Republic of GhanaΒ is inaugurated withΒ Jerry RawlingsΒ as President.[30]
  • 1993 – Bosnian War: TheΒ Bosnian ArmyΒ executes aΒ surprise attackΒ at the village of Kravica inΒ Srebrenica.[31]
  • 1999 – The Senate trial in theΒ impeachmentΒ of U.S. PresidentΒ Bill ClintonΒ begins.[32]

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