1810:Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1881:Fugitive Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops.
1951:King Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated.
1960:Sirima Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) became the world's first woman prime minister.
1969:Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon.
1985:Treasure hunters found the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank off the coast of Key West, Fla., in 1622 during a hurricane. The ship contained over $400 million in coins and silver ingots.
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