Person report

★13 Nov 1940
Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.

★21 Oct 1956
With the capture of Dedan Kimathi, the British mostly put an end to the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, although the rebellion survived until after the nation's independence in 1960.

★13 Jan 1963
Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio, was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.

★10 Jul 1966
Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil rights campaigns in the northern United States.

★13 Jun 1970
"The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number one single in the United States.

★25 Mar 1971
Vietnam War: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandoned an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.

★04 Jun 1974
The Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball hosted Ten Cent Beer Night, but had to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to rioting by drunken fans.

★21 Oct 1983
At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the length of a metre was redefined as the distance that light travels in vacuum in ​1⁄299,792,458 of a second.

★29 Aug 1984
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminated salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.

★11 Sep 1992
The eye of Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane to strike the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.

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