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Johnson signs the Cuban Adjustment Act; 123,000 Cubans may now apply for green cards

Cubans admitted since January 1, 1959 can apply for permanent residence from inside the United States.

By 1966, tens of thousands of Cubans had reached the United States, and under the 1952 immigration law they were supposed to return to Cuba to request a formal visa. Few Cubans could be expected to go back to Cuba to ask for one. On November 2, 1966, Public Law 89-732 took effect with President Lyndon B. Johnson's signature, letting Cubans admitted after January 1, 1959 apply for permanent residence after two years in the country. About 123,000 people were eligible to apply…

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1988

A Cornell graduate student's program slips onto the Internet from a computer at MIT

Robert Tappan Morris, 23, launches it at about 8:30 p.m. from another campus so it won't trace back to Cornell; the network holds roughly 60,000 machines.
2000

Shepherd, Krikalev and Gidzenko dock at the space station and float inside

Their Soyuz reaches the aft port of the Zvezda module at 09:21 UTC; ninety minutes later the hatch opens on a station that has never had a resident crew.
1983

Reagan signs the King holiday bill, fifteen years after the first one was introduced

Congress passed it by wide margins, but the President had once dismissed the push behind it as "an image, not reality."
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The papers are shuffled first, so neither state can claim to have come in ahead of the other.
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1984

Sullivan steps outside Challenger; first American woman to walk in space

Over the next three and a half hours she and David Leestma pumped hydrazine into a mock satellite to prove orbiting spacecraft could be refueled.
1976

A thread-like shape appears under the electron microscope in Atlanta

CDC virologists Fred Murphy and Alyne Harrison get the first clear image of the virus killing hundreds in Sudan and Zaire.
1962

A U-2 camera finds Soviet missiles ninety miles from Florida

The film still has to be developed and read before Washington even knows what it has.
1954

Hazel comes ashore in the Carolinas; by nightfall it is drowning Toronto

A Category 4 landfall near Calabash and a flash flood on the Humber River happen hundreds of miles apart, on the same day.
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