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1985 The Coca-Cola Company announces that it will change its classic formula for Coke; negative public reaction provokes a return to the old formula.
1971 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first in Salyut 1 space station.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy; the sentence is later reduced to life in prison.
1966 President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam.
1950 Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1945 The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.
1924 The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.
1915 The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1896 Motion pictures premiere in New York City.
1895 Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1826 Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1789 U.S. president George Washington and his wife, Martha, move into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House in New York; the White House is built ten years later.
1759 British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1521 The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1500 Pedro Cabal claims Brazil for Portugal.
1348 The first English order of knighthood is founded.