3 July---------------------1930 Congress created the Veterans Administration.//////1962 Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.//////1971 Rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27./////1985 The time-travel comedy "Back to the Future," starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, was released in movie theaters.//////1986 President Ronald Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.//////1988 The USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.///////2001 Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague.//////2005 A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.//////2009 Sarah Palin announced she would resign as Alaska governor with 16 months left in her term.
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