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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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1985

Philadelphia police drop a bomb on a row house; fire spreads for hours, killing 11

Commissioner Sambor ordered the strike on 6221 Osage Ave; officials let the blaze run until 61 homes are ash and 250 people have nowhere to sleep.
1958

Eisenhower buries two unknowns at Arlington; each man receives the Medal of Honor

Charette, the Navy's only active enlisted Medal of Honor holder, chose the World War II unknown; Lyle picked the Korean War soldier from four disinterred candidates.
1968

Kennedy is dead; Johnson declares a national day of mourning

Shot in the Ambassador Hotel kitchen nearly 25 hours ago, the California primary winner dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
1964

Senate breaks the longest filibuster in its history; civil rights vote is cleared

Robert Byrd's 14-hour, 13-minute speech closes 72 days of Southern obstruction, and cloture passes 71 to 29.
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