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1616 | The Spanish poet Cervantes died in Madrid. |
1789 | President-elect George Washington and his wife moved into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House in New York City. |
1791 | James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, was born in Franklin County, Pa. |
1928 | Child actress Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, Calif. |
1940 | About 200 people died in a dance-hall fire in Natchez, Miss. |
1954 | Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (Aaron's career total is second only to Barry Bonds.) |
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1968 | Leftist students at Columbia University in New York City began a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings. |
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1971 | The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released. |
1985 | The Coca-Cola Co. announced it was changing its secret formula for Coke. (Negative public reaction forced the company to revert to the original version.) |
2005 | Co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube.com. |
2007 | Boris Yeltsin, the first freely elected Russian president, died at age 76. |
2010 | Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the nation's toughest illegal immigration measure into law. |
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