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1346: Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.

1533: Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.

1708: The French were defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.

1742: A papal decree was issued condemning the disciplining actions of the Jesuits in China.

1786: Morocco agreed to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.

1798: The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by "An Act for Establishing a Marine Corps" passed by the U.S. Congress. The act also created the U.S. Marine Band. The Marines were first commissioned by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775.

1804: The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.

1864: In the U.S., Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an invasion of Washington, DC. They turned back the next day.

1914: Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.

1918: Enrico Caruso recorded "Over There" written by George M. Cohan.

1934: The first appointments to the newly created Federal Communications Commission were made.

1934: U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first American chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal while in office.

1955: The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated in Colorado Springs, CO, at Lowry Air Base.

1960: In Honolulu, HI, the first tournament held outside the continental U.S., sanctioned by the U.S. Golf Association, began.

1962: The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the Telstar I satellite.

1972: U.S. forces broke the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.

1977: The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony.

1978: 216 people were killed when a tanker truck overfilled with propylene gas exploded on a coastal highway south of Tarragona, Spain.

1979: The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth. It burned up in the atmosphere and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

1980: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the release of hostage Richard Queen due to illness. Queen was flown to Zurich, Switzerland. Queen had been taken hostage with 62 other Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.

1985: Dr. H. Harlan Stone announced that he had used zippers for stitches on 28 patients. The zippers were used when he thought he may have to re-operate.

1985: Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first major league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career.

1987: Bo Jackson signed a contract to play football for the L.A. Raiders for 5 years. He was also continued to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals.

1994: Shawn Eckardt was sentenced in Portland, OR, to 18 months in prison for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.

1995: Full diplomatic relations were established between the United States and Vietnam.

1998: U.S. Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home. He had been positively identified from his remains that had been enshrined in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, VA.

1999: A U.S. Air Force jet flew over the Antarctic and dropped off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nelson after she had discovered a lump in her breast. Nelso was at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center.

2000: Comedian Jimmy Walker was cited for failing to maintain his lane after his car collided with another vehicle.

2000: Arkansas Judge Leon Johnson announced that he would preside over the disbarment case against U.S. President Clinton. Several other judges had stepped aside from the case citing the appearance of conflict of interest.

2000: The video "Jaws," the Anniversary Collector's Edition, was released.

2000: Liam Neeson broke his pelvis after hitting a deer with his Harley Davidson motorcycle.

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