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| 1825 | Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia. |
| 1890 | The electric chair was used for the first time, to execute a convicted murderer at Auburn State Prison in New York. |
| 1890 | Hall of fame pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut with the Cleveland Spiders of the National League. |
| 1914 | Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia, and Serbia declared war against Germany at the outbreak of World War I. |
| 1962 | Jamaica became an independent dominion within the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. |
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| 1978 | Pope Paul VI died at age 80. |
| 2007 | The Crandall Canyon Mine in central Utah collapsed, trapping six coal miners. (All six miners died, along with three rescuers.) |
| 2008 | The government declared that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks that killed five in 2001. (Ivins had committed suicide on July 29.) |
| 2008 | A U.S. military jury convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, of supporting terrorism in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay. |
| 2009 | Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31. |
| 2011 | Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the elite Navy commando unit that had slain Osama bin Laden; seven Afghan commandos also died. |
| 2011 | Violence erupted in London amid anger over the fatal police shooting of a 29-year-old father of four; rioting and looting spread to other parts of the city and other English cities over the next several days, leaving five dead. |
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