| Hint | Answer | Year |
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| This black boxer knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. | |
| Bolsheviks kill this Tsar of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). | |
| Born: American playwright of ''The Odd Couple''. | |
| Born: American businessman/Yankees owner/''Seinfeld'' character (d. 2010). | |
| This baseball star, diagnosed with ALS, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself ''The luckiest man on the face of the earth'' as he announces his retirement. | |
| Born: American peace activist, author of ''Born On The Fourth Of July''. | |
| After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, this country attains full independence from the United States. | |
| Born: English video game designer, AKA Lord British. | |
| US president Lyndon B. Johnson signs this ''sunshine'' act into law. The act goes into effect the next year. | |
| Born: Famed sign-language gorilla. | |
| In France, this former Gestapo chief (AKA the ''Butcher of Lyon'') is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment. | |
| Died: American oil-painting artist and PBS television host (b. 1942). | |
| This NASA space probe lands on the surface of Mars. It is now known as the Sagan Memorial Station. | |
| Died: American record producer/singer/songwriter with famously deep bass voice (b. 1944). | |
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