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| 1812 | The City Bank of New York (later Citibank) opened for business. |
| 1890 | Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Lancashire, England. |
| 1897 | The United States signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii. |
| 1903 | Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. |
| 1911 | The forerunner of IBM was incorporated in New York State as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. |
| 1932 | President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. |
| 1960 | "Psycho," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, premiered in New York. |
| 1963 | The Soviet Union launched the first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, into orbit aboard Vostok 6. |
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| 1967 | The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California. |
| 1976 | Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto. |
| 1978 | President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
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| 1987 | A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession. |
| 1996 | Russians voted in the country's first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and a Communist challenger. |
| 2011 | Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., announced his resignation from Congress, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.. |
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