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Michael Phelps Earns his 8th Gold Medal in the 2008 Olympics
The American champion swimmer won the medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay race in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
Gabon gains independence from the French:
France had occupied Gabon since the latter part of the 1800’s. From 1934 to 1958, French Equatorial Africa was considered by France as an unified colony.
- 1960 Sean Penn
American actor, director
- 1949 Norm Coleman
American politician
- 1943 Robert De Niro
American actor
- 1988 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Pakistani politician, 6th President of Pakistan
- 1935 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American sociologist, novelist
- 1850 José de San Martín
Argentinian general, politician, 1st President of Peru
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