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On This Day: April 15

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Every entry on this date through all eight years of the Reagan administration.

Diary Entry - 04/15/1984

Key Facts

  • President Reagan receives word that two military observers are killed in Namibia by a bomb explosion.

  • Extremist Sikhs plunder forty stations in Punjab, India.

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A quiet day at home. Bud called with word 2 of our mil. observers in Namibia were blown up in a bomb explosion. It appears it was evidently not aimed at them—they just happened to be there when the thing went off. It was an oil station—they were getting gas.

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