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nated and will not serve if elected."
• In 1912, U.S. Marines landed in Cuba at the order of President William Howard Taft to ensure order and protect U.S. interests.
• In 1916, the Arab Revolt against Turkish Ottoman rule began during World War I.
• In 1933, the United States went off the gold standard.
• In 1940, during the World War II Battle of France, Germany attacked French forces along the Somme line.
• In 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as The Marshall Plan.
• In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars.

• In 1967, war erupted in the Mideast as Israel raided military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
• In 1976, 14 people were killed when the Teton Dam in Idaho burst.
• In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as

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