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2012
New Zealand’s Mount Tongariro erupts for the first time since 1897.
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1997
Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in troubled rival Apple Computer, Inc.
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1993
Pope John Paul II publishes “Veritatis splendor encyclical,” regarding fundamentals of the Catholic Church’s role in moral teachings.
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1991
Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first-ever website, Info.cern.ch.
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1988
A melee that became known as the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City leads to NYPD reforms.
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1981
Argentina’s ex-president Isabel Peron is freed from house arrest.
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1979
Twelve-year-old Marcus Hooper becomes the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
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1973
Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is in an automobile accident and goes into a four-day coma.
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1972
Atlanta Braves’ right fielder Hank Aaron hits his 660th and 661st home runs, setting the Major League record for most home runs by a player for a single franchise.
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1970
M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American screenwriter, director and producer (The Sixth Sense, The Village).
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1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South.
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1962
Jamaica becomes independent, after 300 years of British rule.
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1950
Winston E. Scott, US Navy commander and astronaut.
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1945
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1942
The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army.