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Biography Of The Day
Hirohito, 1982.
Hirohito, 1982.
© Bettmann/Corbis		Hirohito
Japanese Emperor Hirohito, who was born this day in 1901 in Tokyo, ruled his country from 1926 to 1989, a reign that included both Japan's military defeat in World War II and its postwar economic triumphs.

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On This Day In History
Yellow zipper on pink background.
Yellow zipper on pink background.
© 2005 Index Open		1913: Zipper patented
Swedish Canadian Gideon Sundback received a U.S. patent this day in 1913 for the modern “hookless” zipper, which improved on the clasp locker exhibited by Whitcomb Judson at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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More Events On This Day In History
1992:A National Guardsman standing watch in Los Angeles in late April 1992, during rioting that raged in …Riots erupted in Los Angeles in response to the verdict of a highly publicized trial of four white Los Angeles police officers who were acquitted of charges related to the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist who had resisted arrest.
1945:Roll call of Roma (Gypsy) prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.The U.S. Seventh Army liberated tens of thousands of inmates at the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
1936:Zubin Mehta, 1986.Orchestral conductor Zubin Mehta was born in Bombay (Mumbai), India.
1916:About 10,000 British troops surrendered to Ottoman Turks at Al-Kut, Iraq, following a five-month siege during World War I.
1899:Duke Ellington.American composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington, among the most significant figures in jazz history, was born.
1429:Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, by …French national heroine Joan of Arc and her troops entered the besieged city of Orléans during the Hundred Years' War.

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