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• In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.
• In 1894, the First Sino-Japanese War erupted.
• In 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.
• In 1911, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to receive a U.S. pilot's certificate from the Aero Club of America. (Quimby was killed in an accident in July 1912 at age 37.)
• In 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
• In 1944, an uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasted two months before collapsing.
• In 1946, President Harry S. Truman signed the Fulbright Program into law. The Atomic Energy Commission was established.
• In 1957, the United States and Canada agreed to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• In 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, went on a shooting rampage at the University of Texas in Austin, killing 14 people. Whitman, who had also murdered his wife and mother hours earlier, was gunned down by police.
• In 1971, the Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, took place at New York's Madison Square Garden.
• In 1981, the rock music video channel MTV made its debut.
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• Ten years ago: Two former WorldCom executives were arrested on charges of (Continued on page 77)
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