President Eisenhower demanded that all US currency would feature the words “In God We Trust.”
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The USS Indianapolis vessel was torpedoed and sunk.
England won the FIFA World Cup Final in London against Germany with a score of 4-2.
Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
Vanuatu gained its independence from the Anglo-French Condominium.
NASA's Apollo 15 Lunar mission landed on the Moon's surface with the first Lunar Rover.