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Today in History

1570
A tidal wave in the North Sea destroys the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people are killed.
1772
The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.
1789
The property of the church in France is taken away by the state.
1841
The second Afghan War begins.
1869
Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election bid in Ellis County, Kan.
1880
James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States.
1882
Newly elected John Poe replaces Pat Garrett as sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory.
1889
North Dakota is made the 39th state.
1889
South Dakota is made the 40th state.
1892
Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin.
1903
London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published.
1914
Russia declares war with Turkey.
1920
The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh.
1920
Charlotte Woodward, who signed the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration calling for female voting rights, casts her ballot in a presidential election.
1921
Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League.
1923
U.S. Navy aviator H.J. Brown sets a new world speed record of 259 mph in a Curtiss racer.
1926
The Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports.
1936
The first high-definition public television transmissions begin from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC.
1942
Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa.
1943
The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ends in a U.S. Navy victory over Japan.
1947
Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time.
1948
Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States.
1959
Charles Van Doren confesses that the TV quiz show 21 is fixed and that he had been given the answers to the questions asked him.
1960
A British jury determines that Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene.
1963
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated.
1976
Jimmy (James Earl) Carter is elected the 39th president of the United States.
1983
Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
1984
Serial killer Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the US since 1962.
2000
The first resident crew arrives at the International Space Station.

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