In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state, and more events that happened on this day in history.
In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state,In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. APIn 1986, more than 1,700 people died when toxic gas erupted from a volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon.In 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
In 2013, an Army private now known as Chelsea Manning was sentenced at Fort Meade, Maryland, to up to 35 years in prison for spilling an unprecedented trove of government secrets. In 2015, a trio of Americans, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler, and a British businessman, Chris Norman, tackled and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.
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