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| | Sir V.S. Naipaul
Trinidadian writer Sir V.S. Naipaul, who was born this day in 1932, became known for his pessimistic novels set in Third World countries—such as A Bend in the River (1979)—and won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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| | 1945: Indonesia's declaration of independence
On this day in 1945, Sukarno declared Indonesia's independence from The Netherlands, and, after the Dutch transferred sovereignty four years later, he served as the country's first president (1949–67).
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| 1978: | | Ben L. Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman completed the first transatlantic balloon flight, in Double Eagle II. |
| 1969: | | The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, a rock festival near Bethel, New York, that attracted 450,000 fans, ended. |
| 1896: | |  George Washington Carmack unearthed gold in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River in the Yukon Territory, Canada, setting off a gold rush into the Klondike valley. |
| 1887: | |  Marcus Garvey—a charismatic black leader who helped found the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which sought, among other things, to build in Africa a black-governed nation—was born in Jamaica. |
| 1590: | | John White returned to Roanoke Island, Virginia, from England and found no trace of the colony (now called the Lost Colony) that he had left there three years earlier. |
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