It is the 43rd day of the year, with only 322 days remaining until the new year.
1502 - Vasco de Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony, and its first city of Savannah.
1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the U.S. government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, is founded.
1914 - In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1946 - Operation Deadlight ends after the successful scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1994 - Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
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