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- 1949 USSR lifts blockade of West Berlin after US, UK, and allies successfully supply the city during the Berlin Airlift
- 2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
- 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, measuring 7.8 in magnitude occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 87,000, injuring 374,643 and leaving homeless between 4.8 million and 11 million people
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- 1967 Track Records releases "Are You Experienced" album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience - one of the most influential debut albums ever
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- 1888 Crouching start 1st used in track and field by Charles Sherrill of Yale
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San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens (oldest continuously operating university in the Americas)
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Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin
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