1927
Trotsky gets the boot
Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.
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1920
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.
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1942
The World War II battle of Guadalcanal begins.
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1954
Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
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1970
A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing over 200,000 people.
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1981
The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.
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1990
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1997
Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.
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