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★13 Apr 1919
British Indian Army troops massacred hundreds of unarmed men, women and children who were attending a peaceful gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, India.

★13 Apr 1941
The Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed a neutrality pact, which lasted through most of World War II.

★16 Jan 1942
TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain in Nevada, killing actress Carole Lombard and all of the other 21 people on board.

★01 Mar 1950
In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act for supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.

★19 Jun 1953
Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.

★11 May 1963
In response to two bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., African Americans rioted, having perceived local police complicity with the perpetrators.

★14 Oct 1964
Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev.

★28 Dec 1967
Muriel Siebert became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

★31 May 1981
An organized mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitias began burning the public library in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, destroying over 97,000 items in one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the 20th century.

★20 Sep 1984
The Cosby Show, which became one of three U.S. television shows to have the highest ratings five years in a row, aired its pilot episode.

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