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| 1944 | Germany launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy, during World War II. |
| 1948 | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley. |
| 1962 | President John F. Kennedy imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba.. |
| 1964 | The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, kicking off rock 'n' roll's "British invasion."
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| 1974 | The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain. |
| 1984 | Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk. |
| 1986 | Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of family rule. |
| 1990 | The Soviet Union's Communist Party gave up its monopoly on power by agreeing to let other political parties compete for control of the country. |
| 1991 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president. |
| 1992 | European Community members signed the Maastricht Treaty, which led to creation of the euro. |
| 1995 | Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. |
| 1999 | Jordan's King Hussein died at age 63. |
| 2011 | AOL Inc. announced the $315 million purchase of The Huffington Post website. |
