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★23 Jul 1921
The Communist Party of China was founded at the inaugural National Congress in Shanghai.

★26 Sep 1933
As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which became a nickname for FBI agents.

★24 Mar 1934
The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years.

★29 Nov 1947
The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.

★21 Mar 1952
The first major rock and roll concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball, was held at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

★20 Feb 1965
NASA's Ranger 8 spacecraft successfully transmitted 7,137 photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing into Mare Tranquillitatis.

★09 Dec 1979
A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature.

★14 May 1980
Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador were attacked by both Salvadoran Armed Forces and the Honduran military, resulting in at least 300 deaths.

★12 Sep 1980
The Turkish Armed Forces ousted Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel and ruled the country for three years before democracy was restored.

★05 Mar 1981
The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research and went on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.

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