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- 11-February-1978, At the age of 166 : The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
- 15-June-1977, At the age of 84 : Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years under the Franco regime.
- 14-September-1975, At the age of 369 : Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
- 05-August-1975, At the age of 168 : U.S. President Ford posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee, restoring full rights of citizenship.
- 08-April-1974, At the age of 79 : Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record, by hitting his 715th career home run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
- 09-January-1969, At the age of 132 : In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
- 14-March-1967, At the age of 49 : The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 09-March-1967, At the age of 87 : Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
- 19-May-1966, At the age of 17 : Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of murdering and torturing Sylvia Likens and is sentenced to life in prison. (she is released on parole in December 1985).
- 08-January-1962, At the age of 510 : Leonardo da Vinci's ''Mona Lisa'' is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..
Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster.
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