Vanuatu gained its independence from the Anglo-French Condominium.
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The USS Indianapolis vessel was torpedoed and sunk.
NASA's Apollo 15 Lunar mission landed on the Moon's surface with the first Lunar Rover.
Hackers stole sensitive 'Game of Thrones' files from HBO.
17-year-old Neville Ebbin was riding his electric cycle down a stretch of road in Bermuda when he was hit and killed by a taxi driver named Willard Manders.
Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
