1521
Conquest of the Aztecs
After a three-month siege, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán fell to the Spanish conquistadors, marking the end of one empire and the rise of another.
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1868
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1906
An all-black army unit was accused of a shooting rampage that left 1 civilian dead at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas. In 1972 they were all exonerated.
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1942
Disney's Bambi opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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1961
The border between East and West Berlin was closed and marked with a barbed wire fence.
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1995
Baseball great Mickey Mantle died of cancer.
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2008
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won his 11th career gold medal, becoming the first athlete in Olympic history to do so.
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