1944 – Allies air raid railways at Vaires, Paris
1947 – US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1955 – 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1962 – Cuba’s Minister of Foreign affairs Raúl Castro meets Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow
1972 – Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army
1981 – Polish communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1986 – Videotapes released showing Titanic’s sunken remains
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima, Peru
2012 – 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
2013 – 46th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
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