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1877
German novelist Herman Hesse (Steppenwolf) born in Calw, Germany.
1881
President James Garfield is shot by a disappointed office seeker named Charles Guiteau in a Washington, D.C. train station.
1900 
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flies his self named dirigible over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1937
Amelia Earhart is lost near Howland Island in the South Pacific as she attempted a round-the-world flight.
1940
Nazi puppet state of Vichy France was established with World War I hero Marshal Pétain as the head of state.
1947
A UFO crashes in a farm field near Roswell, New Mexico. An Army press conference asserted the debris to be that of a weather balloon.
1949
Singer-songwriter Greg Brown born in Fairfield, Iowa.
1959
The worst film ever made - Plan 9 From Outer Space, is premiered by director Ed Wood, Jr.
1961
American author Ernest Hemingway died by his own hand at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1962
The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1982
Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to fly 16,000 feet above Los Angeles, California.
1986
Actress, Oven stuffer and trouble with a captal T, Lindsay Lohan born in New York City.
1998
The eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France burned for 77 years until it was extinguished by drunken Mexican soccer fan Rodrigo Rafael Ortega who decided to piss on the memorial commemorating the dead of World War I.
