1942
First gold record
Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
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1763
Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada and all its North American territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.
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1837
Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel.
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1840
Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
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1962
The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
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1967
The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
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1996
IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in the first game of their match.
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2005
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died.
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