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In 1970, renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima killed himself after failing to win public support for his often extreme political beliefs.

On May 11, 1963, bombings in Birmingham, Ala., against non-violent civil rights campaigners trigger a crisis which leads to the involvement of federal troops.

On Jan. 29, 1979, Deng Xiaoping, deputy premier of China, and U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed accords reversing decades of U.S. opposition to the People's Republic of China.

On Nov. 25, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in Dallas three days earlier, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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