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Jan 24th, 1965, "...that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour’”. Britain's former Prime Minister Winston Churchill who led his nation through the (1)___ of World War II dies at the age of 90.

1989, confessed serial killer Ted Bundy is (2)___ in Florida for the 1978 kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

1848, in northern California, James W. Marshall finds a (3)___ at Sutter's mill, sparking would become as known as "The Gold Rush" the following year.

And 1993, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American on the US Supreme Court in a (4)___ movement legend dies at age 84.