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| 1057 |
Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. |
| 1769 |
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica. |
| 1935 |
Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.
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| 1939 |
“The Wizard of Oz” premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. |
| 1944 |
Allied forces landed in southern France during World War II. |
| 1945 |
The Allies proclaimed V-J Day, one day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally. |
| 1947 |
India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. |
| 1948 |
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed. |
| 1960 |
The Republic of the Congo became independent of French rule. |
| 1971 |
President Richard M. Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. |
| 1998 |
A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility. |
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| 2000 |
One hundred people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century; 100 South Koreans visited the North. |
| 2001 |
Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own – two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper. |
| 2006 |
Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon. |
