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TODAY IN HISTORY

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Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

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ESPONAGE CONVICTION ON THIS DAY IN 1960

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U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (center) during his Soviet tribunal

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The Lockheed U-2

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Wreckage of the downed spy plane

 

 

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SHARON TATE INTERRED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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                                  Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski     

On August 9, 1969, cult leader Charles Manson and his followers entered the
home of movie director Roman Polanski and brutally murdered Polanski’s
wife (actress Sharon Tate), movie director Voityck Frykowski, famous hair
stylist Jay Sebring, student Steven Parent and coffee heiress Abigail Folger.
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TODAY IN HISTORY

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RIOTS BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1965

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