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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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