| 1999 | Lennox Lewis wins a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield to become the world heavyweight boxing champion.
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| 1995 | A bomb kills seven people, including five Americans, at a military facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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| 1985 | A huge mudslide buries the city of Armero, Colombia, killing 23,000 people.
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| 1982 | The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
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| 1977 | The Al Capp comic strip, Li'l Abner, appears in newspapers for the last time.
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| 1974 | Karen Silkwood, a worker who had complained of unsafe working conditions at the Cimarron plutonium plant in Oklahoma, dies in a mysterious automobile accident.
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| 1968 | The animated feature Yellow Submarine, starring the voices and music of Beatles, premieres.
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| 1956 | Racial segregation on public buses is ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
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| 1945 | Ethiopia and Panama join the United Nations.
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| 1942 | The US government lowers the minimum military draft age from 21 to 18.
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| 1940 | Walt Disney's animated masterpiece, Fantasia, premieres in New York City.
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| 1927 | The Holland Tunnel, linking New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey, opens to traffic after seven years of construction.
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| 1775 | US troops capture Montreal, during the American Revolution.
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