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1789
Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury.
1936
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam)
in Nevada.
1962
The Beatles recorded their first single, Love Me Do.
1971
Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.
1997
In Scotland, voters approved the establishment of a parliament to run their domestic
affairs, after 290 years of union with England.
2001
Two hijacked commercial jets were crashed by terrorists into the north and south towers
of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the collapse of both towers. A short
while later, another plane was crashed into the Pentagon, and fourth into a field near
Shanksville, Pa.
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