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• In 1853, Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti was born in Havana. • In 1909, the United States withdrew its forces from Cuba as Jose Miguel Gomez became president. • In 1915, the United States Coast Guard was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill merging the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service. • In 1916, Louis D. Brandeis was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court; Brandeis became the court's first Jewish member. • In 1945, during World War II, Allied supplies began reaching China over the newly reopened Burma Road. • In 1962, the last of Washington, D.C.'s streetcars made its final run. • In 1973, a cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War. • In 1980, six U.S. diplomats who had avoided being taken hostage at their embassy in Tehran flew out of Iran with the help of Canadian diplomats. • In 1982, Italian anti-terrorism forces rescued U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier, 42 days after he had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades. • In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. • In 1988, a 13-day standoff in Marion, Utah, between police and a polygamist clan ended in gunfire that killed a state corrections officer and seriously wounded the group's leader, Addam (correct) Swapp. • • Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, girding the nation for war, said in his (Continued on page 50)
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