1882 American outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by fellow gang member Robert Ford at home in St. Joseph, Missouri.
1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin.
1929 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent.
1944 British dive bombers attack German battleship Tirpitz at Kåfjorden, Norway.
1948 US President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan to rebuild war-torn Western Europe after World War II, granting an initial $5 billion in aid to 16 European countries.
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Oh my God, not again!!
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