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  1. 2001 – The September 11 attacks take place in the United States.
  2. 1999 – The Dreamcast, the last video game console to be produced by SEGA, is released.
  3. 1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
  4. 1991 – Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
  5. 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
  6. 1926 – The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
  7. 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
  8. 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
  9. 2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
  10. 1998 – Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season
  11. 1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
  12. 1974 – US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
  13. 1968 – The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit "Hey Jude".
  14. 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
  15. 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
  16. 1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
  17. 1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
  18. 1956 – The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.
  19. 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conf.
  20. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.