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From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
- 1839 – Industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller (pictured) is born.
- 1889 – The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
- 1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
- 1947 – Reports are broadcast that an Unidentified flying object crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
- 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
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