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• In 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrians (vehicles began crossing the next day).
• In 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France, with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood.
• In 1942, Navy Cook 3rd Class Doris "Dorie" Miller became the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross for his "extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety" during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
• In 1962, a dump fire in Centralia, Pa., ignited a blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to burn this day.
• In 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.
• In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification for an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997.
• In 1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy.
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• Ten years ago: Two Iraqis shot and killed two American soldiers in Fallujah (fuh-LOO'-juh), a hotbed of support for Saddam Hussein. Derrick Todd Lee, a suspected serial killer of women in Louisiana, was arrested in Atlanta. (Lee is under sentence of death for one killing and sentenced to life for another.) A study was released that showed women who took hormones for years ran a higher risk of Alzheimer's or other types of dementia.
• Five years ago: Myanmar's military government renewed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention for one year; the move came as officials said that international aid workers had finally begun entering Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta area after being blocked for more than three weeks by the junta.
• One year ago: Syria strongly denied allegations that its forces had killed scores of people -- including women and children -- in Houla, but the U.N. Security Council condemned government forces for shelling residential areas. At the Cannes Film Festival, Austrian director Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film, "Amour." Dario Franchitti won the Indianapolis 500 for the third time. Johnny Tapia, the five-time boxing champion whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine addiction, alcohol, depression and run-ins with the law, was found dead at his Albuquerque, N.M., home; he was 45.
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• Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (wohk) is 98. Actor Christopher Lee is 91. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 90. Au

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