Person report

★26 Jan 1945
Audie Murphy engaged in action that won him a Medal of Honor and made him one of the most famous and decorated American combat soldiers of World War II.

★28 Aug 1963
During a large political rally in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.

★21 Mar 1968
War of Attrition: The Israel Defense Forces clashed with the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Jordanian Armed Forces during the Battle of Karameh.

★25 Jul 1969
Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world", beginning the Vietnamization of the war.

★11 Apr 1973
Future Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il's treatise On the Art of the Cinema, a justification for film propaganda in support of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, was published.

★20 Sep 1973
Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets before 30,492 spectators at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, in an internationally televised tennis match dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes".

★16 Nov 1974
The Arecibo message, devised by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster M13, carrying basic information about humanity.

★17 Feb 1978
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the La Mon restaurant near Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing twelve people and injuring thirty others.

★12 Apr 1983
Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.

★17 Oct 1992
Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori was shot and killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.

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