| 1995 | Polio vaccine pioneer, Dr. Jonas Salk, dies in La Jolla, California, at age 80.
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| 1985 | An Air-India Boeing 747 crashes into the Atlantic near Ireland, killing all 329 people aboard.
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| 1969 | Outgoing US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in his successor, Warren Burger.
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| 1956 | Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected Egyptian president.
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| 1938 | 20,000 people jam the entrance to the Marineland oceanarium in St. Augustine, Florida, on its first day of operation.
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| 1860 | The US Secret Service is created by an act of Congress.
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| 1664 | The New Jersey colony is sold by the Duke of York.
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| 1661 | Tangier and Bombay are given to England in the marriage contract between England's King Charles II and Catherine of Portugal.
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