THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1580 > Drake circumnavigates the globe. 1776 > Congress elects agents to negotiate treaty with France. 1820 > Famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri. 1888 > Author T.S. Eliot is born. 1918 > Meuse-Argonne offensive opens. 1944 > Allies suffer heavy casualties in Arnhem. 1945 > First American soldier is killed in Vietnam. 1957> West Side Story premieres on Broadway.1960 > Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised presidential debate.
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