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  • 1954Ā ā€“Ā Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of aĀ machine translationĀ system is held in New York at the head office ofĀ IBM.[20]
  • 1955Ā ā€“ ContraltoĀ Marian AndersonĀ becomes the first person of color to perform at theĀ Metropolitan OperaĀ inĀ Giuseppe Verdi’sĀ Un ballo in maschera.[21]
  • 1959Ā ā€“ The United States recognizes the newĀ CubanĀ government ofĀ Fidel Castro.[22]
  • 1968Ā ā€“Ā Surveyor Program:Ā Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off fromĀ launch complex 36A,Ā Cape Canaveral.[23]
  • 1973Ā ā€“ In his second shooting spree of the week,Ā Mark EssexĀ fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others atĀ Howard Johnson’sĀ Hotel inĀ New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.[24]
  • 1979Ā ā€“Ā Third Indochina War:Ā Cambodianā€“Vietnamese War:Ā Phnom PenhĀ falls to the advancingĀ VietnameseĀ troops, driving outĀ Pol PotĀ and theĀ Khmer Rouge.[25]
  • 1980Ā ā€“ U.S. PresidentĀ Jimmy CarterĀ authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out theĀ ChryslerĀ Corporation.[26]
  • 1984Ā ā€“Ā BruneiĀ becomes the sixth member of theĀ Association of Southeast Asian NationsĀ (ASEAN).[27]
  • 1985Ā ā€“Ā Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyĀ launchesĀ Sakigake, Japan’s firstĀ interplanetary spacecraftĀ and the first deepĀ space probeĀ to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.[28]
  • 1991Ā ā€“Ā Roger Lafontant, former leader of theĀ Tonton MacouteĀ inĀ HaitiĀ underĀ FranƧois Duvalier, attempts aĀ coup d’Ć©tat, which ends in his arrest.[29]
  • 1993Ā ā€“ TheĀ Fourth Republic of GhanaĀ is inaugurated withĀ Jerry RawlingsĀ as President.[30]
  • 1993 ā€“Ā Bosnian War: TheĀ Bosnian ArmyĀ executes aĀ surprise attackĀ at the village of Kravica inĀ Srebrenica.[31]
  • 1999Ā ā€“ The Senate trial in theĀ impeachmentĀ of U.S. PresidentĀ Bill ClintonĀ begins.[32]

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