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On This Day
10 events2012
Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.
2006
Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
1987
After being convicted of receiving bribes, Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself in front of television cameras during a press conference.
1984
During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984".
1979
After surrounding Mutukula the previous day, Tanzanian forces attacked the town and caused Ugandan forces to flee.
1973
The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
1970
The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
1969
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (pictured) survived what was seen as an assassination attempt, an incident that was not revealed to the public until after the fall of the Soviet Union.
1968
Apollo 5 (pictured), the first flight of NASA's Lunar Module, lifted off from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.
1957
New York City police arrested George Metesky, better known as the "Mad Bomber", for planting over 30 bombs over 16 years throughout the city.