On this day :
1959 Barbie makes her debut, 1781 Spanish siege of Pensacola begins, 1985 First AdoptaHighway sign goes up, 1862 USS Monitor battles CSS Virginia, 1954 Republican senators criticize Joseph McCarthy, 1997 Rapper Notorious BIG is killed in Los Angeles, 1981 Japanese power plant leaks radioactive waste, 1841 Supreme Court rules on Amistad mutiny, 1847 US forces land at Vera Cruz, 1862 Battle of the Ironclads, 1916 Pancho Villa raids US, 1932 Chinas last emperor is Japanese puppet, 1996 Comedian George Burns dies at age 100, 1913 Virginia Woolf delivers her first novel The Voyage Out, 1997 Christopher Wallaceaka The Notorious BIGis killed in Los Angeles, 1916 Pancho Villa attacks Columbus New Mexico, 1954 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy, 1943 Bobby Fischer born, 1965 Marines continue to land at Da Nang, 1970 Marines hand over control of I Corps region, 1916 Germany declares war on Portugal, 1945 Firebombing of Tokyo,
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