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1835 – Shots are fired in the U.S House of Representatives as Andrew Jackson narrowly escapes the first attempt against the life of a United States president.
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1933 – Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany.
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1948 – India's Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Ghandi was assassinated in New Dehli by a Hindu fanatic. Mathatma means "Great Soul" in Sanskrit.
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1968 – North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive with coordinated attacks throughout South Vietnam. Journalist Walter Cronkite declares on national TV that the war in Vietnam is now "unwinnable".
1972 – Blood Sunday in Northern Ireland as 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators are shot by British Army paratroopers.
FAMOUS BIRTHS
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1882 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President and cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, NY.
FAMOUS DEATHS
1649 – Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), is beheaded for treason
1836 – Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Griscom), seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag (b. 1752).
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