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1859 Abolitionist John Brown, hoping to start an anti-slavery rebellion, led 21 men in a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia. (The raid was put down and Brown was executed for treason.)
1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1962The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1964 China detonated its first atomic bomb.
1973Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who negotiated a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.
1987Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.
1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.
2002The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.
1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1962The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1964 China detonated its first atomic bomb.
1973Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who negotiated a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.
1987Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.
1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.
2002The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.
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