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31							1 Benin, called Dahomey at the time, became independent in 1960.
32	2 Championship surfer Lisa Anderson was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in 2002.	3 Columbus began the first voyage of his Enterprise of the Indies in 1492.	4 The U.S. Department of Energy was formed in 1977.	5 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor in 1884.	6 Andy Warhol was born on this day in 1928.	7 The first census count in the U.S. began on the first Monday in August of 1790.	8 Mathematician Sir Roger Penrose was born in 1931.
33	9 Mathematician John Fields, after whom the prestigious Fields Medal is named, died in 1932.	10 Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution in 1846.	11 Hypercard, the first widely used hypertext program, was introduced on this day in 1987.	12 The last quagga died in 1883, making the species extinct.	13 Hernan Cortes captured Mexico City from the Aztecs on this date in 1521.	14 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on this day in 1935.	15 The MGM musical The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 1939.
34	16 Hugo Gernsback, inventor and publisher credited with popularizing the science fiction genre, was born in 1884.	17 Marcus Garvey was born on this day in 1887.	18 In an attempt to compete with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape released the Navigator 3.0 Web browser in 1996.	19 Gabrielle Coco Chanel, the influential French fashion designer, was born in 1883.	20 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure in 1964.	21 Hawaii became the 50th state in the United States of America on this day in 1959.	22 Mathematician, scientist and television personality Jacob Bronowski died in 1974.
35	23 Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on this day in 1969.	24 Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the city of Pompeii, on August 24, A.D. 79.	25 Allan Pinkerton, famous for breaking strikes, was born in 1819.	26 Art collector Peggy Guggenheim was born in 1898.	27 In the midst of increasing tension in Asia, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan, invited President Roosevelt to meet with him in 1941.	28 The first radio commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City in 1922.	29 Charles Brace Darrow, official inventor of Monopoly, died in 1967.
36	30 Guion S. Bluford, Jr. became the first African American astronaut to travel into space in 1983.	31 Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States in 1954.

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