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a leading role.
• In 1945, the U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.
• In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the "Tsar Bomba," with a force estimated at about 50 megatons. The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.
• In 1972, 45 people were killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train was struck from behind by another train in Chicago's South Side.
• In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a

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