1967
"You do what you think is right and let the law catch up"
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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1919
President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed.
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1944
The two-month-long Warsaw Uprising was squelched by Nazi troops battling the Polish underground.
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1950
The "Peanuts" comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, first appeared in newspapers.
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1958
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1998
Gene Autry, the singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, died at age 91.
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