Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States
1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
1879 - George Selden applied for the first automobile patent.
1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".
1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
2003 - The U.S. Senate unanimously endorsed adding seven former communist nations to NATO. The countries were Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
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