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1803 The United States purchased the Louisiana territory from
France.
1904 * Irene Dunne, US actress who starred in the film Remember Mama
(1948).
1915 90,000 ANZAC troops were evacuated from Gallipoli after being
defeated by the Turks.
1946 * Uri Geller, Israeli psychic who amazed people in the 1970's
with metal bending telepathy.
1952 * Jenny Agutter, English actress who starred in the film The
Railway Children (1970).
1955 The United Nations General Assembly elected Yugoslavia on the
Security Council.
1957 Elvis Presley was called up to serve in the US army at the
height of his fame.
1966 * Keifer Sutherland, US actor and son of US actor Donald
Sutherland.
1968 Prize winning author, John Steinbeck, died in New York.
1973 The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is
assassinated in a car bomb attack in Madrid.
1979 More than five million council house tenants in Britain are to
be given the right to buy their
home.
1981 A desperate search was underway for the RNLI Penlee lifeboat,
Soloman Browne, whose crew of 8 were missing feared dead.
1987 A Philippine ferry with more than 1,500 passengers sank in
shark-infested waters.
1989 General Manuel Noriega, dictator of Panama was overthrown by a
US led invasion force.
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