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| 1847 |
Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic. |
| 1910 |
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia. |
| 1939 |
Major league baseball was televised for the first time when experimental station W2XBS broadcast a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. |
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| 1957 |
The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. |
| 1961 |
The Hockey Hall of Fame opened in Toronto. |
| 1964 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. |
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| 1974 |
Aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh died at age 72. |
| 1978 |
Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected the 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I. |
| 1986 |
In the so-called “preppie murder case,” 18-year-old Jennifer Levin was found strangled in New York’s Central Park. (Robert Chambers later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served 15 years in prison.) |
| 2003 |
Investigators concluded that NASA’s overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did. |
