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1535
Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII's Church of England.
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1942
Anne Frank and her family sought refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
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1944
A fire caused by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed over 160 people.
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1957
Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women's singles tennis title. She was the first black person to win the event.
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1997
The Mars rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian surface.
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1998
Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys, died.
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