| 1497 |
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John Cabot returns to England after his first successful journey to the Labrador coast. |
| 1863 |
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The CSS Alabama captures the USS Sea Bride near the Cape of Good Hope. |
| 1904 |
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The Japanese army in Korea surrounds a Russian army retreating to Manchuria. |
| 1942 |
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The Soviet city of Voronezh falls to the German army. |
| 1945 |
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Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender. |
| 1965 |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South. |
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