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- 1850
Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River) View Post →
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- 1860
1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yale)
- 1866
Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army
- 1944
Japanese banzai-attack on Guam
- 1959
SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel in just over 2 hours
- 1984
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
- 1985
Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
- 2019
City killer Asteroid 2019 OK passes near earth undetected
- 2021
USA's men's basketball team sees their 25-game Olympic winning streak end
- 2000
Concorde jet crashes, killing everyone onboard
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