1994
The Rwandan Genocide
Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
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1862
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.
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1913
5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
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1927
U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
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1943
LSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratorie in Basil, Switzerland, by Albert Hoffman.
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1948
The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
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1949
Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
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2003
Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
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2009
Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.
