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In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
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In 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.
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In 1913, the Joyce Kilmer poem "Trees" was first published in "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse."
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In 1936, the Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
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In 1944, an uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasted two months before collapsing.
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In 1957, the United States and Canada agreed to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
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In 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, went on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas in Austin, killing 14 people. Whitman, who had also slain his wife and mother hours earlier, was gunned down by police.
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In 1971, the Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, took place at New York's Madison Square Garden.
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In 1981, the rock music video channel MTV made its debut.
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In 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they'd been secretly married 11 weeks earlier. (Presley filed for divorce from Jackson in January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences.)
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In 2007, the eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour, killing 13 people.
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Ten years ago: Saudi Arabia's ruler, King Fahd, died; Crown Prince Abdullah, the king's half-brother, became the country's new monarch. President George W. Bush used a recess appointment to install John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, bypassing the Senate after a testy standoff with Democrats.
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Five years ago: The United States announced that it would provide Pakistan with $10 million in humanitarian assistance in the wake of deadly flooding. Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rico independence activist who'd spent 25 years in prison for participating in a gun attack on the U.S. Congress in 1954, died in San Juan at age 90.
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One year ago: President Barack Obama, in a televised news conference, said that the United States had "tortured" al-Qaida detainees captured after 9/11, adding, "We did some things that were contrary to our values." Congress approved a $225 million package to replenish Israel's missile defense system known as Iron Dome. A medical examiner ruled that a New York City police officer's chokehold caused the death of Eric Garner, whose videotaped arrest and final pleas of "I can't breathe!" had sparked outrag
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Thought for Today: "As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand." - "Josh Billings" (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American author (1818-1885).
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