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| 1509 | Henry VIII became king of England following the death of his father, Henry VII. |
| 1864 | Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins. |
| 1870 | Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Simbirsk, Russia. |
| 1954 | The televised Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began. |
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| 1970 | Earth Day was observed for the first time. |
| 1983 | The West German news magazine Stern announced the discovery of personal diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler that turned out to be a hoax. |
| 1993 | The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C. |
| 1994 | Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at age 81 in New York City, four days after suffering a stroke. |
| 2000 | Armed immigration agents seized Elian Gonzalez from his relatives' home in Miami; the 6-year-old boy was reunited with his father. |
| 2004 | Pro football player Pat Tillman, who'd traded in a multimillion-dollar contract to serve as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, was killed by friendly fire. |
| 2005 | Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans. (He was later sentenced to life in prison.) |
| 2010 | The Deepwater Horizon oil platform, operated by BP, sank into the Gulf of Mexico two days after a massive explosion that killed 11 workers. |
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