1848- Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the 1st President of the independent African Republic of Liberia
1852- 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1899- The 1st known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times
1956- A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower
1961- US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962- Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel
1969 - John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ
1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
2013 - 27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq
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