


The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment (1933)
German Gestapo, under the banner of the National Socialist Workers' Party, organize the first deportation of 5,000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp (1942)
The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon (1966)
b: César Chávez (1927), Al Gore (1938), Barney Frank (1940), Patrick Leahy (1940); d: Eleanor Marx (1898), Bella Abzug (1998), Terry Schiavo (2005)

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