About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin. An agreement was signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece granting Cyprus its independence. 1997 Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries, died. 1999 President Clinton posthumously pardoned Henry O. Flipper, the first black graduate of West Point, whose military career was tarnished by a racially motivated discharge. Current Birthdays Prince Andrew turns 41 years old today.
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