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September 18. In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gestures to students before she speaks at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. In her last years on the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. She was always the last justice to exit the courtroom, with Justice Clarence Thomas helping her down the steps from the Supreme Court bench. But Ginsburg, who died in September at age 87, was known for her speed at something: writing opinions.  Credit: AP Photo/Jessica Hill
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September 11. The second plane approaches New York's World Trade Center moments before it struck the tower at left, as seen from downtown Brooklyn, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In an unprecedented show of terrorist horror, the 110 story towers collapsed in a shower of rubble and dust after 2 hijacked airliners carrying scores of passengers slammed into them.  Credit: AP Photo/ William Kratzke
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September 4. Police move heavy rocks from roadway near picnic grove in Peekskill, New York, Aug. 27, 1949 after rioting broke out at concert scheduled by singer Paul Robeson. Overturned automobile is in background. (AP Photo)
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington.  Credit: AP Photo/File
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August 21. "Nat Turner & His Confederates in Conference", engraving from Orville J. Victor's History of American Conspiracies: A Record of Treason, Insurrection, Rebellion, &c. in the United States of America, From 1760 to 1860 (1863)
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August 7. Philippe Petit, a French high wire artist, walks across a tightrope suspended between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York. Petit and his companions surreptitiously strung a wire between New York City's recently constructed World Trade Towers on Aug. 6, 1974, and Petit walked across it the next day. He danced, strutted and clowned around for 45 minutes as startled bystanders watched from 110 stories below. The Frenchman's stunt is the subject of the 2008 documentary "Man on Wire" and the 2015 film "The Walk," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 
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July 31. United States' Michael Phelps competes in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Tuesday, July 31, 2012.  Credit: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
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July 17. This aerial view shows Disneyland as 22,000 invited guests attend opening day festivities of the amusement park in Anaheim, Ca., on July 17, 1955. The 160-acre theme park, built on an orange grove, opened to the public July 18. Credit: AP Photo
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July 10. Telstar 1 Credit: Science Museum Group
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