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1870
Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
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1918
The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
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1940
The world's tallest man (8 feet, 11.1 inches), Robert Wadlow, died.
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1948
John J. Pershing, whose leadership in World War I earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died in Washington, DC.
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1975
The Russian Soyuz and the U.S. Apollo launched. The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.
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2010
After 86 days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and several previous attempts to contain the flow, BP caps its leaking oil well.
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