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🚀 Time Machine
-1813
Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his 7th Symphony in A.
-1863
President Abraham Lincoln issued his "Ten percent plan" of amnesty and reconstruction.
-1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers the "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress after Pearl Harbor's bombing; the US declares war on Japan, officially enters World War II.
-1949
Chinese Nationalist leaders, losing ground to Mao Zedong's communist forces, flee to Taiwan and establish a new capital.
-1966
The US and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons in outer space.
-1969
President Nixon announces the Vietnam War is ending.
-1978
Michael Cimino's "Deer Hunter" premiered in Los Angeles with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep. (Academy Awards Best Picture 1979)
-1980
John Lennon, a former Beatles member who changed popular music in the 1960s, was murdered by an obsessed fan in New York City.
-1982
Sophie's Choice, starring Meryl Streep as a Holocaust survivor, premiered in Los Angeles.
-1987
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty between the two superpowers to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
-1993
President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law.
-2004
The Cusco Declaration was signed in Peru, establishing the Union of South American Nations.
-2024
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad resigns and flees to Moscow after rebels take Damascus.
📸 Snapshot
John Lennon signing his album for David Chapman several hours before the murder, 1980
🗨️ Final Words
“Curtain! Fast music! Lights! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good. The show looks good.”