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1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida.
1836: The first Mormon temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio.
1964: Alaska was rocked by a powerful earthquake that killed 114 people.
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1968: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth, died in a plane crash.
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