Vladimir Putin, the intelligence officer and politician who became president of Russia in 1999 upon the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, was overwhelmingly reelected to a second term as president this day in 2004.
| 1969: | | The Beatles' Yellow Submarine became the rock band's 14th gold album. |
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| 1964: | | In the first courtroom verdict to be televised in the United States, Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. |
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| 1951: | | United Nations forces recaptured Seoul during the Korean War. |
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| 1883: | | | Historian and revolutionary Karl Marx died in London. |
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| 1864: | | Celebrated American railroad engineer Casey Jones was born in southeastern Missouri. |
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| 1826: | | The first Pan-American conference convened in Panama with representatives from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Central America in attendance. |
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| 1794: | | American inventor Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin. |
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| 1681: | | German composer Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdeburg, Brandenburg. |
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