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1770
Capt. James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia .
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1919
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown.
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1963
Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama following Gov. George Wallace’s famous "stand in the schoolhouse door."
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1977
Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.
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2001
Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, was executed.
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