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Ho Chi Minh Letter to Truman (1946)Feb 16th, 1946
On this day in 1946, Ho Chi Minh wrote a letter to President Harry Truman, asking for assistance in supporting the Vietnamese independence movement.
Leaked Pike Committee Report Published (1976)Feb 16th, 1976
On this day in 1976, the newspaper Village Voice published excerpts of the Pike Committee Report under the headline "The CIA Report the President Doesn't Want You to Read".
Mildred Fish-Harnack Executed (1943)Feb 16th, 1943
Mildred Fish-Harnack was an American historian and anti-fascist executed by the Nazi government on this day in 1943. She is the only American woman executed on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler.