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• 917 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invaded Thrace and drove the Byzantines out.
• 1882 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
• 1968 - 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
• 1977 - Voyager 2 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a mission to explore the outer planets of the solar system.
• 1991 - Estonia regained its independence in the Singing Revolution as part of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Did you know...

...that the movie I Am Cuba was filmed as Cold War Soviet propaganda but only became successful when it was shown to audiences in the United States during the 1990s?
...that in 1968, Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall became the first Olympian disqualified for drug use, for drinking two beers?
...that, unlike corporate creations Betty Crocker and Ronald McDonald, food-brand icon Chef Boyardee was real?
...that cotton candy was first sold to the public at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?