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Ronald Reagan dies

Ronald Wilson Reagan, a former actor, California governor and the 40th president of the U.S., died at his Los Angeles home at age 93, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, making him the nation's longest lived president at that time. A state funeral took place in Washington, D.C.

GM workers launch 7-week strike amid plant closures

Members of United Auto Workers Union Local 659 walked off the job shortly after 10 a.m. The strike, the seventh against GM since early 1997, involved accelerated workloads, outsourcing and health and safety issues, officials of Local 659 said.

Apple II goes on sale

The machine was designed by Steve Wozniak with minor contributions of Steve Jobs and Rod Holt. According to Wozniak it was small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive. It had an 8-bit architecture. At first, the Apple II used data cassette storage. In 1978, the company introduced an external floppy disk drive.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot

Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a candidate of presidential office, was shot three times in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five others people were wounded. The senator had just completed a speech celebrating his victory in the California presidential primary. Senator died the next day while hospitalized.

Six-day war broke out in Middle East

The Six-Day War also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, known at the time as the United Arab Republic, Jordan, and Syria.

George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe

Secretary of State George C. Marshall in his speech calls on the US to assist in the economic recovery of postwar Europe. It was called as Marshall Plan. The US sent billions of dollars to Western Europe to rebuild the devastated countries. The Plan was signed by president H. S. Truman.

German border reset after WWII

The inner German border was the border between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1990. Not including the similar and physically separate Berlin Wall, the border was 1,393 kilometres long and ran from the Baltic Sea to Czechoslovakia.

Roosevelt takes U.S. off gold standard

A congressional resolution abrogated gold clauses in all contracts, both government and private. Gold clauses guaranteed that contracts would be repaid in gold or in gold’s monetary equivalent, at the value set in 1900. A series of cases in the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of these actions.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

died 2004

Ronald Reagan

born 1951

Jill Biden

died 2018

Kate Spade