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1832 | President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. |
1850 | Vice President Millard Fillmore became president following the death of Zachary Taylor. |
1890 | Wyoming became the 44th state. |
1943 | U.S. and British forces invaded Sicily during World War II. |
1951 | Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong. |
1962 | The Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. |
1964 | The album "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles was released. |
1973 | The Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule. |
1985 | Coca-Cola Co., bowing to pressure from irate customers after the introduction of New Coke, said it would resume selling its old formula. |
1991 | Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic. |
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1992 | A federal judge in Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to 40 years in prison on drug and racketeering charges. |
1999 | The U.S. women's soccer team won the World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. |
2006 | Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy exploded. |
2011 | Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid the News of the World, brought down by a phone-hacking scandal, published it last issue. |
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