Major Events
- 1913 Ford Motor Company institutes the world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
- 1934 Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
- 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
- 1988 Benazir Bhutto is named Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first female leader of a Muslim country
- 1990 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel 40 meters under the English Channel, achieving a major engineering feat and the long-held dream of linking Britain to Europe
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- 1973 Jack Nicklaus finishes at 13-under-par 275 to win the Walt Disney World Open by 1 stroke over Mason Rudolph and becomes the first player to reach $2 million in PGA Tour career earnings
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The New York Daily News reports the first successful sex reassignment surgery
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