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| 1861 | Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. He remained in office throughout the period of what is usually but improperly called the "Civil War".
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| 1951 | US Navy spy plane, P2V Neptune, with crew of 10 (no survivors or remains recovered) shot down by USSR. This aircraft was apparently shot down by Soviet fighters either over international waters about 20 miles from Vladivostok, USSR (according to the United States) or over Vladivostok (according to the Soviets).
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| 1964 | An agreement was reached between Cuba and the U.S. government to airlift 3,000-4,000 Cuban refugees to the U.S. monthly. In the next 5 years several hundred thousand, many from the educated classes, left the island, joining those who had left during the first great wave of out-migration from 1959 to 1961.
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| 1969 | Child Protection and Toy Safety Act of 1969, Pub. L. 91-113, is signed into law.
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| 1978 | Amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 make the processes for federal employees' claims of discrimination on the basis of disability and the available remedies virtually identical to federal sector Title VII processes and remedies.
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| 1985 | Upping the ante in the battle against extradition, guerrillas linked to the Medellin cartel attack the Colombian Palace of Justice. At least 95 people are killed in the 26-hour siege, including 11 Supreme Court justices. Many court documents, including all pending extradition requests, are destroyed by fire.
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| 1986 | Iran-Contra Scandal has its beginnings.
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| 1991 | President Boris Yeltsin, disbanded the Communist Party in the former USSR.
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| 1992 | William Jefferson Blythe Clinton (D) elected president of the USA.
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| 2003 | Bush (R) signs $87 billion supplemental spending bill into law. [Don't worry -- he massive oil money Wolfowitz said would be stolen from Iraq should be here any day now. . .]
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