| 2003 | Eleven of thirteen coal miners, trapped for five days in a flooded mine in southern Russia, are brought to the surface.
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| 2003 | The Napster version 2.0 pay-per-download music site begins operations.
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1998 | 
US Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, becomes the US' oldest
astronaut (age 77), as the space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Kennedy Space
Center, Florida.
(photo credit: NASA)
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| 1994 | Francisco Martin Duran fires a gun 25 times at the White House, hoping to assassinate US president Bill Clinton.
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| 1979 | 50 years after the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protestors attempt to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
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| 1966 | The National Organization for Women is founded.
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| 1956 | The Huntley-Brinkley Report nightly newscast premieres on NBC TV.
Uncle Woody sez: As a kid, I still remember the "Good night, David." "Good night, Chet. And good night for NBS news." banter as the pair (one based in New York, the other in Washington, D.C., signed off for the evening.
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| 1956 | Israel launches an invasion of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
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| 1929 | Black Tuesday, where fearful investors crashed the New York Stock Exchange through the panicked selling of stocks, starts the Great Depression in America.
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| 1924 | The ends of the Holland Tunnel meet under the Hudson River in New York City.
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| 1923 | Turkey becomes a republic.
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| 1912 | The size of the US flag is set by presidential order.
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| 1901 | Leon Czolgosz, US president William McKinley's assassin, is put to death in the electric chair.
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| 1863 | The International Red Cross is established.
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| 1808 | The last punishment for witchcraft is administered in England.
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| 1682 | William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, lands at modern day Chester, Pennsylvania.
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| 1618 | Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer and colonizer, is executed for conspiring against King James I.
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