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| 1790 | The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the U.S. government. |
| 1951 | J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was published. |
| 1957 | Marine Maj. John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds. |
| 1964 | In accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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| 1969 | Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the moon. |
| 1973 | Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon's secret taping system during the Senate Watergate hearings. |
| 1979 | Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
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| 1980 | Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit. |
| 1999 | John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister died when the single-engine plane Kennedy was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Mass. |
| 2004 | Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge for lying about a stock sale. |
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