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2004—American warplanes miss Abu Musab al Zarqawi but kill 13 people at a wedding instead. 1991—House Speaker Tom Foley [D-Wash.] says the Sergeant-at-Arms will fix no more traffic tickets for Reps. 1985—Dining at the White House, President Reagan “praises incessantly” his guest’s most recent work of art: Rambo: First Blood, Part II. 1974—Undermined by Mafioso Michele Sindona, pal of President Nixon’s Treasury Secretary David Kennedy, Franklin National Bank goes bust. 1969—A three-day riot branded “Days of Rage” begins in Chicago. 1968—Washington, D.C. riots after police shoot a Black man. 1967—Ernesto “Che” Guevara is captured by Bolivian troops led by the CIA’s Felix Rodriguez. 1955—“The nations …

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