In 1969, boxer Rocky Marciano died in the crash of a small airplane in Iowa, one day short of his 46th birthday. In 1991, Uzbekistan and Kirghizia declared their independence, raising to 10 the number of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union. In 1995, At the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, Judge Lance Ito ruled the defense could play only two examples of police detective Mark Fuhrman's racist comments from taped conversations with a screenwriter. Holidays and ephemera Today is Independence Day in Kyrgyzstan. It is National Day in Malaysia.
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