George W Bush secured his second term as President of the United States.
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The Soviet Union sent a dog into space aboard the spacecraft Sputnik II.
Explorer Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, found Dominica and the Kalinago people.
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah became the first elected female State Senator in the United States.
NASA launched the last space probe in the Mariner Program, Mariner 10.
Queen Elizabeth II inaugurated the flow of oil from the UK's first-ever oil pipeline.