On June 3, 1539, Hernando DeSoto claimed Florida for Spain.
In 1851 the New York Knickerbockers became the first professional baseball team to wear uniforms.
In 1923 Benito Mussolini gave women the right to vote in Italy.
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In 1968 Andy Warhol was critically shot and wounded in a New York studio.
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