1854
"I went to the woods to live deliberately"
Henry David Thoreau's Walden, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, was published.
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1936
Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympics.
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1945
The United States exploded a nuclear bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
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1965
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1974
Vice president Gerald Ford was sworn in as president following Nixon's resignation.
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1995
Jerry Garcia, lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, died.
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