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| 1647 | Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor. |
| 1858 | Minnesota became the 32nd state. |
| 1894 | Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. The job action spread and crippled railroad service nationwide before the federal government intervened to end the strike in July. |
| 1904 | Artist Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain. |
| 1910 | Glacier National Park in Montana was established. |
| 1944 | Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy. |
| 1946 | The first CARE packages for Europe arrived at Le Havre, France.
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| 1947 | The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire. |
| 1949 | Israel was admitted to the United Nations. |
| 1949 | Siam changed its named to Thailand. |
| 1973 | Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by a judge who cited government misconduct. |
| 1981 | Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer at age 36. |
| 1985 | A flash fire swept through a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England, killing 55 people. |
| 1996 | An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board |
| 1997 | The Deep Blue IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York. |
| 1998 | India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years. |
| 1998 | A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro. |
| 2004 | A video on an al-Qaida-linked Web site showed the beheading of American hostage Nicholas Berg, who had been kidnapped in Iraq. |
| 2007 | North and South Korea adopted a military agreement, enabling the first train crossing of their border in more than half a century. |
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