1868: US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote
1920: French heroine Joan of Arc is canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV
1943: Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs
1944: 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1989: Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing and formally end a 30-year rift
2013: Human stem cells are successfully cloned
Source: Onthisday.com
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