1937
Earhart into thin air
Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.
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1566
French astrologer, physician, and prophet Nostradamus died.
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1881
President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau; he died on Sept. 19.
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1890
Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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1964
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
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1976
In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
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1997
Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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2002
Steve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.
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