Boris Yeltsin resigned as the President of Russia, which left Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President.
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Barbra Streisand performed her first live public concert in 20 years.
NASA successfully put two satellites designed to study the Moon's interior structure into the Moon's orbit.
US President Harry Truman officially proclaimed the end of World War II.
The British East India Trading Company was given a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I.
Denmark's Queen Margrethe announced that she would end her 52-year-long reign.
