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1847: Rescuers reach the ill-fated Donner Party in the Sierras.
1861: Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom.
1902: Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France.
1915: British and French warships begin their attacks on the Turkish forts at the mouth of the Dardanelles, in an abortive expedition to seize the straits of Gallipoli.
1919: The First Pan African Congress meets in Paris, France.
1926: Dr. Lane of Princeton estimates the Earth’s age at 1 billion years.
1942: The Japanese bomb Port Darwin on the northern coast of Australia.
1965: Vietnam War protesters are arrested for blocking the United Nations’ doors in New York.
1976: Britain cuts welfare spending.
1981: The U.S. State Department calls El Salvador a “textbook case” of a Communist plot.
1987: New York Governor Mario Cuomo declares he will not run for president.

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