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1876 Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in Deadwood, S.D.

1909 The first Lincoln penny was issued.

1923 Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States, died in San Francisco.

1943 PT-109, a torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, was sunk off the Solomon Islands by a Japanese destroyer.

1945 The Potsdam Conference, in which Allied leaders planned the postwar governance of Germany, ended.

1990 The Persian Gulf War broke out when Iraq invaded Kuwait.

1979 at 6:42pm, the world was graced with a baby girl named dana