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On This Day

10 events
1977
Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.
1967
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
1959
The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
1957
The Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, causing more than $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
1956
In Tbilisi, Georgia, soldiers suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization.
1946
Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
1944
World War II: As part of the Battle of Narva, the Soviet Air Forces heavily bombed Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
1933
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1932
Éamon de Valera (pictured), a dominant political figure in 20th-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
1927
Former Royal Air Force officer Vivian Stranders (pictured) was convicted of industrial espionage by a French court.

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