Vanuatu gained its independence from the Anglo-French Condominium.
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Following the fall of the Umayyads, the city of Baghdad, Iraq, was founded by caliph Al-Mansur the Islamic Ruler.
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.
28-year-old chemist Eugène Schueller founded a beauty company, which would later be named L'Oreal.
Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
