2021- American talk-show host Larry King, whose easygoing interviewing style helped make Larry King Live (1985–2010) one of CNN’s longest-running and most popular programs, died at age 87.
2018-The father of South African Jazz Hugh Masekela dies
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1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1989-Challenge to “Who is a Jew” law filed in the Israeli Supreme Court
1971 Milton Obote threatens to leave the Commonwealth if Britain sells arms to apartheid South Africa.
1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor.
1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1556 – An earthquake in Shensi Province, China, killed 830,000 people.
1806 – William Pitt the Younger, twice Prime Minister, died aged 47.
1900 – The battle of Spion Kop was fought during the Boar war.
1990 – Gales up to 115mph caused great damage across the UK, killing at least four persons
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