


The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly-elected Socialist assemblymen (1920)
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement (1935)
The U.S. recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro (1959)
President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation (1980)
The impeachment of President Bill Clinton begins (1999)
President B. Hussein Obama meets with disgraced former President Bill Clinton at the White House (2010)
Terrorists backed by the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight (and one Muslim bystander) in the Nag Hammadi massacre (2010)
b: Heinrich von Stephan (1831), Orval Faubus (1910), Donna Rice (1958); d: Hirohito (1994)

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