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TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1896 – While salmon fishing near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory, George Carmack reportedly spots nuggets of gold in a creek bed. His lucky discovery sparks the last great gold rush in the American West.
- 1977 – Music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 42.
- 1958 – Madonna Louise Ciccone is born near Detroit, Michigan.
- 1987 – A plane crash at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan kills 156 people. A 4-year-old girl was the lone survivor of the crash.
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