Rescuers reach the Donner Party, Edison patents the phonograph, the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station, and Fidel Castro resigns as Cuban president, all on this day.
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1976: On the 34th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II, President Gerald R. Ford's issues Proclamation 4417 formally rescinding the earlier order.