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US Invades Grenada (1983)
After a left-wing government took control of Grenada in a 1979 bloodless coup, relations between the tiny Caribbean nation and its neighbors became strained. In 1983, the government was overthrown by radicals from within the same movement. Concerned about Grenada's leanings toward Cuba and the Soviet bloc, the US invaded. World leaders were outraged, and the UN voted 108 to 9 to condemn the invasion.

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Turkmenistan Gains Independence from the Soviet Union (1991)
Following Turkmenistan's independence, the head of its Communist Party, Saparmurat Niyazov, became president. He developed a totalitarian cult of personality, isolating the Central Asian nation culturally and politically. Citizens were tested on their knowledge of Niyazov's autobiography and spiritual guide book, the Ruhnama—even on driver's license tests. Niyazov's successor later reversed many of his policies, including the decision to rename the months of the calendar

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Harvard College Is Founded (1636)
Founded with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard College was named for its first benefactor, John Harvard. He bequeathed his books and about £780 to the fledgling college. The oldest and one of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in the US, Harvard originally trained Puritan ministers. Today, it has the largest university endowment in the US, estimated at more than $25 billion in 2009.

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Delta and Northwest Merge to Form World's Largest Airline (2008)
Founded as an aerial crop dusting operation in Georgia, Delta became the world's largest commercial air carrier more than 80 years after its inception when it merged with Northwest Airlines. The consolidation process was completed by January 31, 2010. Today, Delta has approximately 75,000 employees, and its headquarters in Atlanta includes the world's largest connecting hub.

1766 St. Paul's Chapel in New York is consecrated

1873 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts in New York City

1888 John J. Loud patents the ballpoint pen

1919 Baseball league presidents call for the abolishment of the spitball

1938 A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes mass panic

1940 "One Night in the Tropics," the film debut of the comedians Abbott and Costello, premieres in Paterson, New Jersey

1948 20 people die and 6,000 fall ill due to smog in Donora, Pennsylvania

1952 Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas

1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution to remove Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square as part of de-Stalinization efforts

1972 45 people die in a rail accident in Chicago, Illinois, the worst US rail accident in 14 years

1973 Tom Seaver becomes the first non-20-game winner to win the Cy Young Award

1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in "The Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire, regaining the world heavyweight boxing title using the famous "rope-a-dope" tactic

1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws the fastest recorded pitch at 100.9 mph

1990 Britain and France complete the "Chunnel" under the English Channel

2005 Al López American Baseball HOF catcher and AL Manager of the Year, dies at 97

2007 Robert Goulet American Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer, dies at 73

2018 Whitey Bulger American organized crime boss, killed at 89 shortly after arriving at US Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia

2021 Grand Ole Opry broadcasts its 5000th Saturday night radio program from Nashville, Tennessee

2023 Former basketball player Magic Johnson is the fourth athlete to become a billionaire (after Michael Jordan, Lebron James, and Tiger Woods), according to Forbes

2023 Frank Howard, American baseball player and manager, NL Rookie of the Year 1960, dies at 87