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60 years ago today, the Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965 was concluded between the governments of Malaysia and Singapore.

60 years ago today, U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It is a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

80 years ago today, the U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing about 70,000 people instantly.

135 years ago today, at Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair.

100 years ago today, Plaid Cymru was formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that was at the time in danger of dying out.

965 years ago today, Philip I began his reign as King of the Franks when he was eight years old. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time.

150 years ago today, Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, died. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

2,240 years ago today, the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeated a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.

65 years ago today, Ocean's 11, an American heist film, premiered in Las Vegas. It was directed and produced by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer.

230 years ago today, the Treaty of Greenville was signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.

80 years ago today, the Potsdam Conference ended. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

75 years ago today, Guam was organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States when President Harry S. Truman signed the Guam Organic Act.

55 years ago today was the last day on which the Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily rum ration (the daily tot).

105 years ago today, Marie Tharp, an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer, was born. In collaboration with Bruce Heezen, she produced the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.

250 years ago today, the U.S. Army JAG Corps was founded by General George Washington with the appointment of William Tudor as the Judge Advocate General.

370 years ago today, Cyrano de Bergerac, a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist, died. His work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th century.

20 years ago today, the Provisional Irish Republican Army called an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.

275 years ago today, Johann Sebastian Bach, a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period, died. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms.

250 years ago today, the Second Continental Congress passed legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men," founding the U.S. Army Medical Department.

80 years ago today, Helen Mirren was born. Her career spans over six decades of screen and stage.