2021
US President Joe Biden met Queen Elizabeth II for tea at Windsor Castle in London.
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2007
The first large-scale exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s works was displayed in Mexico.
354 of Kahlo’s original drawings and paintings went on display at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City in honor of the Mexican artist’s 100th birthday.
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2000
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea met North Korea’s Kim Jong-il for the first inter-Korea summit.
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1989
James Bond’s “Licence to Kill” was released.
The movie is the 16th part of the Bond series and had a budget of $32 million.
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1983
NASA’s spacecraft, The Pioneer 10, became the first craft to exit the solar system.
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1981
Queen Elizabeth II was shot with six blank rounds by a youth.
The prank was committed by Marcus Sarjeant. On this day, the queen was riding a horse when she was fired at. The queen managed to keep her horse under control, and when Sarjeant was questioned, he stated, “I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be a somebody.”
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1981
Tom Snyder interviewed notorious killer Charles Manson on NBC’s Tomorrow Coast to Coast show.
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1980
Paul McCartney’s single “Waterfalls” was released.
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1976
Bob Marley performed at Jaap Edenhal, Amsterdam, Netherlands, during his Rastaman Vibration tour.
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1967
Senate appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first US African American to the Supreme Court of justice.
The choice came after the retirement of Tom Clark, and the votes were 69/11 in Marshall’s favor.
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1966
US Supreme Court declared the start of informing potential criminals of their rights. These became known as the Miranda rights.
It all started in 1963 when a suspect, unaware of his rights, got caught out in a confession that he retracted. Now any potential criminal must be told, “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will, be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you.”
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1920
US Post Office banned customers from mailing children and animals.
The choice came after several cases, including; parents mailing their child to their grandparents, a woman in the middle of a divorce mailing her child to the father, and somebody mailing a skunk.
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1865
President Andrew Johnson reorganized the Confederate States.
Part of his reorganization was to bring Southern governing areas into account.
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1834
Leonard Norcross was granted the first US patent for an underwater diving suit.
Norcross invented the first closed helmet for diving made entirely from lead with an air pipe that went from the helmet to the water’s surface.
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