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Today in History
2001 - George Harrison of the Beatles dies.
2011 - Dr Conrad Murray sentenced in Michael Jackson death case.
1929 - Explorer Richard Byrd flies over the South Pole.
1967 - Robert McNamara resigns as Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.
1963 - One week after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Johnson appoints a special commission to investigate his death.
1981 - Actress Natalie Woods drowns.