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1847 Newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary.
1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was
incorporated.
1870 Russian Communist leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), Vladimir Lenin was born.
1912 The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
1925 "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published.
1932 Adolf Hitler came in second in voting for German president to the incumbent, Paul von Hindenburg.
1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito married a commoner, Michiko Shoda.
1963 The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher and its crew of 129 was lost off Cape Cod, Mass.
1972 Some 70 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare.
1974 Golda Meir announced her resignation as prime minister of Israel.

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1978 Beautiful and intelligent Vidou delighted humanity with her birth.
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1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.
1996 President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique that opponents call "partial-birth" abortion.
1998 Negotiators in Northern Ireland reached a landmark settlement that called for Protestants and Catholics to share power.
2001 The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
2002 Eight Israelis were killed by a suicide bomber aboard a bus in Haifa.