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Events

• The U.S. Marine Corps was reestablished– 1798
• U.S. Marine Band established– 1798
• U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel– 1804
• The Waterloo railway station in London opened– 1848
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens was published– 1859
• Confederate General Jubal Early’s army reached Frederick, Maryland– 1864
• Wilfrid Laurier became prime minister of Canada– 1896
• Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut with the Boston Red Sox– 1914
• Fred Baldasare used scuba gear to become the first person to swim the English Channel underwater– 1962
• Last slide rule manufactured in the United States.– 1976
• U.S. space station Skylab, in orbit since 1973, returned to Earth and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean– 1979
• Houston Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan became the first major league pitcher to strike out 4,000 batters– 1985
• According to the United Nations, the world population crossed the 5,000,000,000 mark– 1987
• 35-pound chum salmon caught in Edye Pass, British Columbia– 1995