1930s - Father Coughlin gives an impassioned speech, then works on writing on another.
1964 - LBJ signs the Civil Rights Bill into law, and gives one of the pens used to do so to Martin Luther King.
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1952 - President Rhee and General van Fleet free thousands of South Korean civilians who'd been held as prisoner under suspicion of being communists, and the men are reunited with their families.
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1962 - American delegate Adlai Stevenson addresses the UN Security Council on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1961 - Cuba's Foreign Minister Roa speaks at the UN and accuses the United States of training rebel forces in Florida, which Ambassador Adlai Stevenson categorically denies.
1944 - An obituary for Wendell Willkie highlights his meetings with Prime Minister Churchill and the Chiang Kai-Sheks, showing his care for the British, Russian and Chinese people.
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MOSCOW - 1950 - Mao Zedong travels to Moscow, Russia where he signs the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance with Nikita Khrushchev (narrated in 1969).
Joseph Stalin sits with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and, later, with Chairman Mao as Koreans and Manchurians cheer the victory of the Red Army in 1945.
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1940s - Slovene-American writer Louis Adamic talks to the advisory council of the National Defense Commission's Consumer Division, and they aim to sell his books.
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1964 - Secretary Rusk and Ambassador Lodge arrive at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii for a conference about Vietnam.
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1946 - Communists push Premier Shidehara to resign in Japan, but he resists and elections are later carried out in an orderly fashion.
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CALIFORNIA - 1970 - President Nixon praises Mexico's President Ordaz while hosting him in California and shares his hope that their countries will enjoy lasting friendship.
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CALIFORNIA - 1970 - Mexico's President Ordaz speaks at a California airport where he is met by President Nixon, before their motorcade travels through town.
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CALIFORNIA - 1970s - The ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Nissin Foods plant in California takes place, with a Japanese businessman sharing his hope it will help Japanese and American relations.
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JAPAN - 1939 - Government officials meet in Japan to discuss the war.
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NEW YORK - 1964 - A Japanese woman arranges crane origami on Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's display. Visitors view a collection of small television screens.
US - 1952 - in this film noir, a priest tells a young man, who is sensitive about the scars on his face, to be more confident and not pay attention to what others say, giving him good advice.
1940 - Secretary of State Sumner Welles and diplomat Myron Taylor arrive in Italy by ship.
1949 - In response to the announcement that Russia is conducting secret atomic bomb research, UN General Assembly president Carlos Romulo expresses that the United Nations must be a watchdog on all atomic activity.
A patient is lying in a hospital bed, lost in a reflective and contemplative mood right now