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- 0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
- 1858 - In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
- 1884 - At Coney Island, in Brooklyn, NY, the first roller coaster in America opened.
- 1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
- 1952 - "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" was published in the United States.
- 1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union while in Paris, traveling with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet.
- 1963 - 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days. She was the first female space traveler.
- 1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.
- 1996 - Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.
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