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2020
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces postponement of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games until summer of 2021 because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
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1999
“The Matrix” film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeve, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie-Ann Moss premieres
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1989
The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound after it ran aground.
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1962
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys.
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1958
Rock’N’Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
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1945
Operation Varsity: In the largest one-day airborne operation of all time, British, US & Canadian paratroopers land east of the Rhine in Northern Germany
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1936
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1837
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1824
1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” in St. Petersburg
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