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1947  National Security Act establishes the CIA.   

1947  Department of Defense forms   

1948  Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the armed forces.   

1948  President Harry S. Truman orders desegregation of the Armed Services   

1948  The inaugural black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show.   

1948  "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance   

1948  Charles Mills, S Afr cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies.   

1949  C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1951 Lick.   

1949  WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting.   

1950  Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game.   

1951  Netherlands ends state of war with Germany   

1952  Eva "Evita" Peron Argentina's inaugural lady, dies in Buenos Aires at 33.   

1952  Mickey Mantle hits his inaugural grand-slammer.   

1952  King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday].   

1952  Maria Eva "Evita" Duarte Peron, Argentina's 1st lady, dies at 33   

1953  Cuban pirate radio station's inaugural transmission at Santiago de Cuba.   

1953  Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban rev   

1953  Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba.   

1953  Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies   

1954  3 aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) shoot down 2 Chinese fighters that fired on them while they were providing air cover for rescue operations for a U.K. airliner shot down by a Chinese aircraft.   

1954  WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting.   

1954  Hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26   

1955  Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers   

1956  Egypt seizes Suez Canal (soon Britian and France along with Isreal show up).   

1956  President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal Company   

1956  Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46   

1957  Carlos Armas, president of Guatemala, is assassinated   

1957  Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200.   

1957  USA test launch inaugural ICBM.   

1957  USSR launches inaugural intercontinental multistage ballistic missile   

1957  Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered   

1958  Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV   

1959  C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183   

1959  Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54.   

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1030  Stanislaus of szczepanów: St. stanislaw   

1467  Ferdinand ii: King of naples   

1678  Joseph i habsburg: German king/roman catholic emperor (1705-11)   

1694  Johann samuel endler: Composer   

1739  George clinton: Ny, (d-r) 4th vp (1805-12)   

1782  John field: Dublin ireland, pianist/composer (nocturnes)   

1791  Franz xaver wolfgang mozart: 6th child of austrian composer wam   

1796  George catlin: Us, author/painter (american indian scenes)   

0796  Offa: King of mercia (75.-796)   

0811  Death of Nicephorus i: Byzantine emperor (802-11),   

1342  Death of Charles i robert van anjou: King of hungary (1307-42),   

1380  Emperor komyo of japan: Emperor komyo of japan (b. 1322)   

1471  Death of Paul ii: [pietro barbo], italian pope (1464-71),   

1533  Death of Atahualpo: Inca ruler,   

1541  Death of Francisco pizarro: Spanish explorer, murdered in lima   

1592  Death of Armand de gontaut: Baron de biron, french soldier (b. 1524)