1875All in a day's workMatthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel. It took him 21 hours and 45 minutes.
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1718
New Orleans was founded by French settlers and named after the Duke of Orleans.
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1825
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1916
The Department of the Interior created the National Park Service to manage and preserve national parks and monuments for future generations.
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1944
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1984
Author Truman Capote was found dead in Los Angeles.
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2001
Singer and actress Aaliyah died in a plane crash in the Bahamas.
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2003
NASA launched the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
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2009
Edward "Ted" Kennedy, who served as a Democratic senator from Massachusetts since 1962, dies. He was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 2008.
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2012
The first human to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, died after suffering complications from a heart bypass.
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