1959
DeGaulle inaugurated
Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.
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1815
The Battle of New Orleans, the last battle in the War of 1812, was fought.
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1918
Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points peace program.
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1958
Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.
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1964
President Lyndon Johnson announced his War on Poverty.
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1982
The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."
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1998
The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.
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2011
Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including United States District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner.
