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1862 - Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi (Chickasaw Bayou).

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1862 - Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

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1932 - Radio City Music Hall theater opens in New York City, New York.

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1934 - First youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Massachusetts).

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1939 - First American ski-mobiles (North Conway, New Hampshire).

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1968 - Apollo 8 returns to Earth.

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1970 - Hello, Dolly! closes at Saint James Theater in New York City after 2,844 performances.

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1983 - A propane explosion in Buffalo, New York kills five firefighters and two civilians, and devastates 16 square blocks.

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1997 - 54-car pileup on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, due to dense fog. One death, 30 injuries.

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2001 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.

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