1789
\nCongress established the U.S. War Department.<\/p>\n
1947
\nThe wooden raft Kon-Tiki, which carried Thor Heyerdahl and five companions more than 4,000 miles, crashed into a reef in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
1959
\nThe United States launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of Earth.<\/p>\n
1964
\nCongress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which expanded President Johnson’s use of military powers in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
1987
\nLynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, making the 2.7 mile trip through the frigid waters of the Bering Strait. Cox is surprised by the (relatively) warm welcome she receives from the Soviets.<\/p>\n
1998
\nU.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, by terrorists. Some 224 were killed and more than 5,500 injured.<\/p>\n
2000
\nSen. Joseph Lieberman of Conn., was selected by Al Gore to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.<\/p>\n
2007
\nBarry Bonds passes Hank Aaron on baseball\u2019s all-time homerun list. The record, however, is discredited by many because of Bond\u2019s alleged steroid use.<\/p>\n
Ralph Johnson Bunche<\/p>\n
1904\u201371, U.S.. government official and UN diplomat, b. Detroit, Ph.D., Harvard, 1934.<\/p>\n
Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga<\/p>\n
poet (1533)<\/p>\n
Nathanael Greene<\/p>\n
general (1742)<\/p>\n
Paulina Wright Davis<\/p>\n
suffragist (1813)<\/p>\n
Mata Hari<\/p>\n
spy (1876)<\/p>\n
Louis Leakey<\/p>\n
anthropologist (1903)<\/p>\n
Don Larsen<\/p>\n
baseball player (1929)<\/p>\n
Charlize Theron<\/p>\n
actress (1975)<\/p>\n
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