1758 – James Monroe, the 5th President of the United States, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
1788 – Maryland entered the United States of America, as the 7th state.
1789 – A rebel crew took over the British ship H.M.S. Bounty and set sail to Pitcairn Island.
1897 – The Chickasaw and Choctaw nations become the first to agree to abolish tribal government and communal land ownership.
1932 – Max Theiler and Eugen Haagen announced they’d discovered a vaccine against yellow fever.
1945 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed.
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1947 – Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl set sail from the Peruvian coast in the 45-foot Kon Tiki to prove that early Peruvian and Polynesian seafarers traversed the Pacific Ocean. The 4,300-mile voyage concluded 101 days later when Heyerdahl arrived on Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands.
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