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| 63 B.C. |
Caesar Augustus was born in Rome. |
| 1779 |
American commander John Paul Jones is said to have declared, “I have not yet begun to fight!” during a Revolutionary War naval battle. |
| 1806 |
The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1846 |
The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. |
| 1926 |
Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, N.C. |
| 1930 |
Musician Ray Charles was born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Ga. |
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| 1939 |
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died at age 83. |
| 1957 |
Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside. |
| 1987 |
Choreographer-director Bob Fosse died at age 60. |
| 1990 |
Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait. |
| 1999 |
The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet. |
| 2011 |
The soap opera “All My Children” broadcast its final episode on ABC, ending a 41-year run. |
