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1968 - Howard University students seize administration building.

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1969 - Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention.

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1973 - Howard Dean tells US President Richard Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency".

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1979 - C-SPAN first begins broadcasting the US House of Representitives.

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1981 - Three workers are killed and five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

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1982 - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27.

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1984 - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River.

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1984 - John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York.

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1985 - US Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile.

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1987 - Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company.

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