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Văn Trỗi tried to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964. Văn Trỗi's last words were "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned."
(19 October 1964)
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Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley born as John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) known for his quote “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” 28 January 1841 (+) is born in Denbigh, United Kingdom. 10 November 1871 (x) meets David Livingstone, of whom little had been heard since his departure for Africa in 1866 to search for the source of the Nile, with the famous line "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" in Ujiji, Tanzania. 10 May 1904 (-) dies of unknown causes in London, United Kingdom. |
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