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    History in 15th Oct

  • Black Panthers founded

    Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.

  • John Galbraith born

    Canadian-American economist and diplomat John Kenneth Galbraith is born in Iona Station, Ontario. A proponent of Keynesian economics, Galbraith served in the Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations, taught at Harvard University for many years, and published a noteworthy trilogy on economic theory: American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State.

  • Justice Clarence Thomas confirmed

    The Senate confirms Clarence Thomas as the second African-American Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.

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