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.
The International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selected 'SOS' (· · · – – – · · ·) as the global standard for radio distress calls.
Political activist and French playwright Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
NASA launched the last space probe in the Mariner Program, Mariner 10.
Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.
