On this day in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (not implemented) calling for the partition of Palestine into two separate states—an Arab and a Jewish one—that would retain an economic union.
| 2001: | | George Harrison, formerly of the Beatles, died of cancer at the home of a friend in Los Angeles. |
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| 1997: | | In a ceremony that was broadcast around the world by satellite, some 28,000 couples gathered at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., for a “wedding” conducted by Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church. |
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| 1963: | | | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
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| 1929: | | | American pioneer aviator Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole. |
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| 1864: | | Colonel John M. Chivington led a controversial surprise attack, known as the Sand Creek Massacre, on a surrendered, partially disarmed Cheyenne Indian camp in southeastern Colorado Territory. |
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| 1850: | | Prussia and Austria signed the Punctation of Olmütz, an agreement regulating the two powers' relations. |
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| 1832: | | | American author Louisa May Alcott, known for her children's books, especially Little Women, was born. |
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| 1830: | | A Polish secret society of infantry cadets staged an uprising in Warsaw, beginning the November Insurrection. |
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