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2020 ‐
Japan's economy, the world's third largest, posts its worst-ever decline, falling 7.8% (April-June quarter)
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1991 ‐
US President George H. W. Bush declares recession is near an end
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1975 ‐
Singer Peter Gabriel announces his departure from the rock group Genesis
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1961 ‐
Martin Luther King Jr. protests for black voting rights in Miami, Florida
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1959 ‐
USSR introduces installment buying
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1953 ‐
Shah of Persia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome (last Shah of Iran)
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1898 ‐
Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
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1894 ‐
Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
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1870 ‐
Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
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1780 ‐
British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, South Carolina
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1777 ‐
American militiamen defeat British forces at the Battle of Bennington near Vermont, during the American Revolutionary War
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