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6 September 1995: Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1970
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5 September 1977: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
2014
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4 September 1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
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1968
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3 September 1783: The American Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
2007
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2 September 1945: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater. The Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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1 September 1914: The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
2011
I did not know that Madeleine Peyroux played guitar. Cool.
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31 August 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
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1997
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