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Facts
1863 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South
1941 US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1941 President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
1965 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
1966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
2004 The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
Deaths
644 Omar I, 2nd Caliph of Islam, murdered
1691 Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
1864 George Boole, English mathematician (Boolean algebra), dies at 49
1942 Albert Kahn, architect of Detroit, dies at 73
1967 Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., USAF/astronaut, dies in a crash of an F-104 Starfighter while training at 32
1980 John Lennon, British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), shot and killed in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
2008 Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer. (b. 1925)
2016 John Glenn, American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), dies at 95
Born on this day
1982 Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and singer (Super Bass, Starships), born in Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
1986 Amir Khan, English boxer
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
John Lennon
Oliver Postgate
