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★02 Feb 1934
The Export–Import Bank, the United States' official export credit agency, was established.

★28 Jul 1935
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber, which dropped more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II, made its first flight.

★01 Sep 1937
The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.

★18 Jan 1956
Navvab Safavi, Iranian Shia cleric and founder of Fada'iyan-e Islam group, was executed.

★26 Aug 1970
Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organized the Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 50,000 women protested the continuing lack of gender equality.

★21 Jul 1972
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast, Northern Ireland.

★04 Jan 1973
Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running sitcom in the world, premiered as an episode of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse.

★06 Oct 1976
Two bombs placed by the CIA-linked Cuban dissident group Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations exploded on Cubana Flight 455, killing all 73 aboard.

★27 Nov 1978
San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.

★01 Feb 1985
Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashed shortly after takeoff from Minsk National Airport, killing fifty-eight people on board.

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