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2008: After Lehman Brothers & Wash. Mutual fail, The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges a record 777.68 points.
1941: German forces surround the USSR's second largest city as the nearly 2.5 year Siege of Leningrad begins.
1966: The original Star Trek series, starring William Shatner as the unflappable Captain Kirk, premiers on NBC.
1974: US President Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while president.
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1945: Japanese forces surrender Wake Island to US Marines. Japan had held control of the island since December 1941.
1997: Princess Diana's funeral takes place in London. Over 2.5 billion people worldwide watch the services on TV.
1861: In what is deemed a great blunder, Confederate Gen. Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state to ask for Union help.
1944: Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.
1838: After two failed attempts, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery by jumping aboard a moving train in Baltimore.
1260: In present day Israel, the Mongols suffer their 1st decisive defeat in battle, marking the point of maximum expansion of their Empire.
1945: Combat ends in WWII's Pacific Theater as the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1942: At the Battle of Alam El Halfa, Erwin Rommel's plan to defeat the British 8th Army before Allied reinforcements arrive in Africa fails
1966: The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1944: 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis, beginning a two month revolt known as the Slovak National Uprising
2004: Brazil's Vanderlei de Lima is attacked by a spectator in a kilt while leading the Olympic marathon in Athens.
1949: At a remote test site in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code named "First Lightning."
2005: Hurricane Katrina ravages the US Gulf Coast, killing an estimated 1,836 people & causing $108 billion in damage
1996: Prince Charles & Princess Diana formally divorce after 4 years of separation. Diana agrees to relinquish any claims to the throne.
1957: US Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent a vote on the Civil Rights Act. He stops speaking 24 hours & 18 minutes later
1896: The shortest war in world history, lasting just 45 minutes, breaks out between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
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