TODAY IN HISTORY

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1959 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss

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1990 New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation

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1948 KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles CA (CBS) 1st broadcast

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1965 George Harrison of the Beatles, has his tonsils removed

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1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die

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1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia

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1991 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence

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1960 "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances

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1972 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)

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In 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur led a sucessful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.

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1955 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe & Bowden of CAN

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In 1735, the first opera presented in America, "Flora, or Hob in the Well," was performed in present-day Charleston, S.C.

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1978 Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 meter indoor (2:34.

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In 1803, Congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution.

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1992 Andrew Schenck conductor, dies of melanoma at 51

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1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez

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1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators

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In 1863, Arizona was organized as a territory.

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In 1948, Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia

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1976 Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants