432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1965 Beatles announce their second film is titled "8 Arms to Hold You" ; later changed to "Help!"
1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor.
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister, the first and only female to hold the office.
1995 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
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