1979Khmer Rouge ousted
Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.
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1896
Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.
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1927
Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.
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1953
Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had developed the hydrogen bomb.
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1955
Marian Anderson made her Metropolitan Opera debut.
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1989
Japan's Emperor Hirohito died.
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1999
The impeachment trial of President William Clinton began in the Senate.
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