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Zenko Suzuki was appointed Prime minister of Japan. He resigned after two years.
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The submarine USS George Washington ran into the Japanese freighter Nissho Maru. Two Japanese cremen were killed in the process.
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Pan Am flight 830 from Tokyo to Honolulu was bombed. The bomb was planted by a splinter group from the Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The explosion killed a teenager and wounded 15 others.
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Japan Airlines Boeing 747 crashed into Mount Otsuka 70 miles Northwest of Tokyo. 520 out of 524 people on board died.
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The Japanese Red Army bombed a U.S. military recreational club in Naples. Five U.S. soldiers were killed.
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Emperor Hirohito died at the age of 87. He had the longest reign in the history of Japan (1922-1989).
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196 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.8 struck northern Japan. Property losses were an estimated $600 million.
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Seven people died and over 200 were sickened by fumes from lethal nerve gas sarin in Matsumoto in Central Japan. It was an act of domestic terrorism by Aum Shinrikyo.
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On this day, a legend was born. I was born at Women and Infants hospital at around eleven AM.
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Japan announced that it will begin a new nuclear power plant in Higashidori in December. 51 nuclear power plants supplied one-third of the nations power.
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I went to Jamaica with my parents and two of my brothers. We took a cruise there on the Royal Carribean.
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We took a cruise to St. Thomas on Norwegian cruiselines. We went to Magens Bay.
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On the second day of kindergarten i broke my arm. I broke it at the Monestary on the blue slide. My arm bent completely backwards.
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We stayed at Club Med in Punta Cana. I took archery lessons here and went underwater for the first time without goggles.
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I got my dog Shelby who i still have today. We got her in Connecticut and she is eleven years old.
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I got Braces from George Family Orthedontics. I had them for five years and got them off in 2010.
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We went to the Bahamas and we stayed at Club Med in Columbus Isle. We visited the spot where Columbus landed.
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We went to Animal Kingdom and Seaworld. I also played a lot of golf down there.
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I will graduate Cumberland Highschool. I will be 18 years old at this time.
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Japan will be hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It is predicted that this will boost the economy due to traveling into the nation and people spending money.
