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- 0079 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.
- 0410 - The Visigoths overran Rome. This event symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the U.S. non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, CA to Newark, NJ, took about 19 hours.
- 1954 - The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the Communist Control Act went into effect.
- 1989 - "Total war" was declared by Columbian drug lords on their government.
- 1995 - Microsoft's "Windows 95" went on sale.
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