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    1776 -- The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation to the United States of America, from the United Colonies.

    1850 – California became the 31st state.

    1893 – President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first president's child to be born in the White House.

    1926 -- The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America.

    1948 -- The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.

    1956 – Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.

    1976 -- Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82.

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    1900 -- A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing about 8,000 people.

    1935 -- Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish," was shot and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.

    1951 -- The San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed, formally ending World War II hostilities with Japan.

    1952 – Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea was published.

    1966 -- Star Trek premiered on television.

    1974 – President Gerald Ford gave former President Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while he was in office.

    1998 – Mark McGwire’s 62nd home run broke Roger Maris’s record of 61 homers set in 1961.