Fidel, Jimi Hendrix, Patty Hearst Arrested

On this day: September 18

Russian Premier Peter Stolypin shot at the Kiev Opera house (1911)

USSR admitted to League of Nations (1934)

Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies (1948)

Fidel Castro arrives in New York City to head the Cuban delegation to the United Nations (1960)

North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam (1964)

Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI most wanted list (1975)

President Barack Obama gives a big speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation annual Award Dinner (2010)

d: Jimi Hendrix (1970), Felix Weil (1975), Edward J. King (2006)

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