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 age 17
1991 Brioni Declaration is signed to end the ten day war between Slovenia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia
Gone on this day:
1930 Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician, author of Sherlock Holmes
