1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later exonerated.
1919 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)
1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game winning streak.
1972 US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle.
1981 Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver confesses that he is the "Yorkshire Ripper" and murdered 13 women.
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