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United States Congress apologizes for slavery:
The U.S. House of Representatives publicly apologized for the institution of slavery and Jim Crow laws that discriminated against African Americans.
Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer:
The couple were married in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, United Kingdom, and divorced 15 years later in 1996.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is established:
The independent agency aims to ban the use of nuclear energy for military purposes. American W. Sterling Cole served as the agency’s first director general.
- 1981 Fernando Alonso
Spanish race car driver
- 1938 Peter Jennings
Canadian/American journalist
- 1905 Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1983 Luis Buñuel
Spanish director, producer
- 1974 Erich Kästner
German author, poet - 1970 John Barbirolli
English cellist, conductor
- 1890 Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
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