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1683 ~ Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer.

1890 ~ Yosemite National Park established.

1897 ~ Birthday of William Faulkner, American writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1932 ~ Birthday of Glenn Gould, Pianist.

1950 ~ UN forces recaptured Seoul, the South Korean capital.

1957 ~ U.S. Army paratroopers ended the Little Rock school crisis.

1981 ~ Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 102nd Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the office.

1983 ~ Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted World War III by refusing to accept - despite the (erroneous) alert given by the Soviet early warning system - that the U.S. had launched missiles against the USSR.

2002 ~ The Vitim event, a possible NEO impact in Siberia, Russia.

2008 ~ China launched its third human spaceflight, Shenzhou 7.