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1968 - US President Lyndon Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.

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1969 - Race riot in Jacksonville, Florida.

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1974 - Laura Aime disappears in Utah (possible Ted Bundy victim).

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1994 - An American Eagle ATR-72 plane crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 64 passengers.

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1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.

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2001 - Searchers recover $230 million in gold and silver from vaults of the Bank of Nova Scotia among rubble of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York City.

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2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush nominates Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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