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U.S. President James Buchanan died in 1868.
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Childrens author Norton Juster was born in 1929.
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Ransom Eli Olds, founder of Olds Motor Vehicle Works (later known as Oldsmobile), was born in 1864.
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The United States Congress approved the Woman's Suffrage Amendment by joint resolution in 1919.
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The first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972.
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American and British forces landed on the shores of Normandy, France in 1944 in what was known as the D-day invasion.
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7
Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi committed his first act of civil disobedience in 1893.
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 1867.
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Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada in 1993.
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The Six-Day War, fought between Israel and several Arab nations, ended in 1967.
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Capt. James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
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Anne Frank was born in 1929.
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LaMarcus Thompsons Switchback Railway, an early roller coaster, opened on Coney Island in 1884.
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14
The Continental Congress approved the design for our national flag on this day in 1777, and today is now celebrated as Flag Day.
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Benjamin Franklin performed his famous kite experiment in 1752.
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Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West in 1961.
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Plans were announced in 1952 for the construction of Southdale, the first U.S. enclosed shopping mall.
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Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.
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French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal was born in 1623.
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The Boxer Rebellion began in China in 1900.
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Psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell was born in 1880.
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Entomologist Filippo Silvestri was born in 1873.
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Virologist Dr. Jonas Salk, the first scientist to create a vaccine for polio, died in 1995.
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The U.S. Senate repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1970.
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The first color television broadcast took place in 1951.
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Scientists announced in 2000 that they had completed a rough map of the human genetic code.
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Helen Keller, author and advocate for the deaf and blind, was born in 1880.
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Nobel Prize winning chemist Mario Molina published his famous ozone paper in the journal Nature in 1974.
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Mesa Verde National Park, home to the spectacular Anasazi Ruins, was created in 1906.
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The Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House in Hong Kong in 1997.