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1998 President Bill Clinton says he would never resign, 'I would never walk away from the of this country and the trust they've placed in me', during a press conference

1997 Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted

1994 Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1991 Auburn men's basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations and is not eligble for post-season play in 1991-92

1990 U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait

1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit

1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody

1983 1st cruise missile placed, Greenham Common, England

1978 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit

1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time

1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City

1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit

1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation

1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York)

1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service

1940 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Ilinois

1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square

1906 Papua placed under Australian administration

1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine

1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves

1801 Washington D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction

1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index

1536 King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church



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