Palermo, Sicily was liberated by US forces.
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33-year-old Katharine Lee Bates wrote the famous song 'America the Beautiful.'
Funai Electric announced that the world's last VCR would be manufactured this month.
Woodstock '99 concert took place in Rome, New York, US.
A deadly 106°F heatwave in Japan killed at least 65 people, and more than 22,000 were hospitalized.
300,000 Jews from a ghetto in Warsaw were deported and executed by Nazi rule.
