On this day:
1958: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act to make Alaska the 49th US state
1985: Boris Becker becomes the youngest person to win Wimbledon at the age 17
1991: Brioni Declaration is signed to end the ten-day war between Slovenia, Croatia, and YugoslaviaÂ
Gone on this day:
1930: Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician, author of Sherlock Holmes
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