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1936 - Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was
published.
1971 - The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting
age to 18, was ratified by the states.
1998 - The remains of a Vietnam War serviceman
buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were
identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J.
Blassie.
In 1942 …
President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: Henry A. Wallace
Population: 134,859,553
Federal spending: $35.14 billion
Federal debt: $79.2 billion
Consumer Price Index: 16.3
Unemployment: 4.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
• More than 120,000 Japanese and persons of
Japanese ancestry living in western U.S. moved to
"relocation centers," some for the duration of the war
(Executive Order 9066).
• Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston kills 491.
• Women's military services established.
• Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, first health
maintenance organization (HMO), begins in Oakland,
Calif.
• Declaration of United Nations is signed in
Washington.
• Nazi leaders attend the Wannsee Conference to
coordinate the "final solution to the Jewish question,"
the systematic genocide of Jews known as the Holocaust.
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