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| 1929 |
The comedy “Amos ‘n’ Andy” made its network radio debut on NBC. |
| 1960 |
A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage. |
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| 1969 |
Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis began three days of recording sessions that yielded the album “Bitches Brew.” |
| 1976 |
President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s national convention in Kansas City. |
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| 1977 |
Comedian Groucho Marx died at age 86. |
| 1994 |
President Bill Clinton halted the nation’s three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees. |
| 1996 |
A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years’ probation for his Whitewater crimes. |
| 2004 |
The Internet search engine Google went public. |
| 2005 |
A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who’d taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx. |
| 2010 |
A federal grand jury indicted retired baseball player Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about steroid use. (Clemens’ trial this year ended in a mistrial.) |
| 2010 |
The last American combat brigade exited Iraq, seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion began. |
