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1997 - Hong Kong returned to China 1867 - Canadian Independence Day 1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg begins | |
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1992 - Chevrolet celebrates 1 million Corvettes 1964 - Johnson signs Civil Rights Act 1776 - Congress votes for independence | |
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1988 - U.S. warship downs Iranian passenger jet 1890 - Idaho becomes 43rd state 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg ends | |
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1997 - Pathfinder lands on Mars 1826 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third presidents of the U.S., respectively, die on this day 1776 - U.S. declares independence | |
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2003 - World Health Organization declares SARS contained worldwide 1996 - First successful cloning of a mammal 1946 - Bikini introduced 1940 - The U.S. passes Export Control Act 1865 - Salvation Army founded | |
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1976 - Women inducted into U.S. Naval Academy 1967 - Civil war in Nigeria 1935 - Dalai Lama, leader of Tibet and bestselling author, is born | |
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2005 - Terrorists attack London transit system at rush hour 1976 - Female cadets enrolled at West Point 1930 - Building of Hoover Dam begins 1928 - Chrysler Plymouth debuts 1865 - Mary Surratt is first woman executed by U.S. federal government | |
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1994 - North Korea's "Great Leader" dies 1959 - First Americans killed in South Vietnam 1976 - The Liberty Bell rings | |
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1947 - First female army officer 1877 - Wimbledon tournament begins 1850 - President Taylor dies of cholera 1846 - U.S. takes San Francisco 1777 - New York elects its first governor | |
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1990 - Gorbachev re-elected as head of Communist Party 1887 - Dam collapses in Switzerland, kills 70 1850 - Millard Fillmore sworn in as president | |
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1995 - U.S. establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam 1945 - Soviets agree to hand over power in West Berlin | |
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1990 - Yeltsin resigns from Communist Party 1862 - Medal of Honor created | |
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1985 - Live Aid concert 1943 - The Battle of Kursk, involving around 6,000 tanks, two million men, and 5,000 aircraft, ends with the German offensive repulsed by the Soviets at heavy cost. | |
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1789 - French revolutionaries storm Bastille 1789 - The Sedition Act becomes federal law, which permitted the prosecution of individuals who voiced or printed what the government deemed to be "malicious" remarks about the president or government of the U.S. | |
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1939 - Carl Fisher, the founder of both the Indy 500 and Miami Beach, died in Miami at age 65 1606 - The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden | |
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1969 - Apollo 11, the first U.S. lunar landing mission, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida 1945 - The U.S. successfully conducts the first test of the atomic bomb at its research facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico | |
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1996 - Shortly after takeoff from NY's Kennedy International Airport, a TWA
Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Paris explodes over the Atlantic Ocean, killing
all 230 people aboard 1955 - Disneyland opens in California | |
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1984 - Twenty-one people are shot to death at McDonald's 1947 - Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act revised the older act that was passed in 1792 during George Washington’s first term. 1936 - Spanish Civil War breaks out | |
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1943 - U.S. bombs Rome 1935 - Parking meters debut 1934 - Patent filed for retractable headlamps | |
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1976 - Viking 1 lands on Mars 1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on moon 1951 - King of Jordan assassinated | |
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2005 - Terrorists attempt to attack the London transit system by planting bombs on 3 subways and on 1 bus 1987 - Enzo Ferrari, in a ceremony commemorating his company's 40th year, unveiled the Ferrari F40 at the factory in Maranello, Italy | |
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1987 - Gorbachev agrees the elimination of intermediate-range missiles on a worldwide basis, with no conditions 1933 - American aviator Wiley Post flies solo around the world | |
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1950 - Korean War begins 1952 - Military seizes power in Egypt 1903 - The first two-cylinder Ford Model A was delivered to its customer, | |
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2005 - American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins a record-setting seventh consecutive Tour
de France and retires from the sport. 1847 - Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers settle in Salt Lake Valley | |
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2000 - Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial jet, crashes 1943 - Mussolini falls from power 1898 - U.S. forces launch their invasion of Puerto Rico, an island that was one of Spain's two principal possessions in the Caribbean | |
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1956 - Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal 1945 - Winston Churchill resigns 1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the U.S. in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. 1908 - FBI founded 1847 - Liberia, formerly a colony of the American Colonization Society, declares its independence 1775 - Congress establishes U.S. Post Office | |
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2002 - During an air show in Ukraine, a fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators,
killing 85 people. 1974 - Nixon charged with first of three articles of impeachment 1904 - The first Buick automobile is sold. | |
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1976 - An earthquake flattens China, kills estimated 242,000 people in Tangshan and surrounding areas 1945 - U.S. Senate approves United Nations charter 1945 - Plane crashes into the Empire State Building, NY | |
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1981 - Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, marraies Lady Diana Spencer, a young English schoolteacher 1958 - NASA created 1909 - The Buick Motor Company acquires the Cadillac Motor Company on behalf of General Motors for $4.5 million | |
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1971 - A mid-air collision between All Nippon Airways Flight 58 and a fighter jet in Japan kills 162 people 1966 - England wins World Cup 1932 - Disney's first color cartoon | |
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1875 - Former President Andrew Johnson dies 1715 - A hurricane strikes the east coast of Florida, sinking 10 Spanish treasure ships and killing nearly 1,000 people. Their gold and silver onboard were recovered in 1965. | |
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