Vanuatu gained its independence from the Anglo-French Condominium.
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Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
NASA's Apollo 15 Lunar mission landed on the Moon's surface with the first Lunar Rover.
28-year-old chemist Eugène Schueller founded a beauty company, which would later be named L'Oreal.
Volkswagen stopped production of the old VW Beetle.
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.