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Misc. History
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".
1998 - Japan nationalized its first bank since World War II.
| Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan |
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