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The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.
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1865 |
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Four people were hanged in Washington, DC, after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate U.S. President Lincoln. |
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1987 |
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Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began. |
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1998 |
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A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery. |
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2005 |
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In London, at least 66 people were killed and at least 700 were injured when several bombs were set off in subway cars and double-decker buses.
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2003 |
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In Liberia, a team of U.S. military experts arrived at the U.S. embassy compound to assess whether to deploy troops as part of a peacekeeping force in the country. |
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Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later. |
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1949 |
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"Dragnet" was first heard on NBC radio. |
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2000 |
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Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it would buy Netiverse Inc. for $210 million in stock. It was the 13th time Cisco had purchased a company in 2000. |
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1981 |
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U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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1983 |
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Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov. |
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1898 |
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The United States annexed Hawaii. |
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1917 |
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Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia. |
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Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government. |
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2000 |
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Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history. |
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1946 |
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Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint. |
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1885 |
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G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine. |
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1920 |
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A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA. |
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1930 |
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Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River. |
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1862 |
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The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri. |
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1846 |
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U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. |
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1937 |
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Japanese forces invaded China. |
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1999 |
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In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation's civil war. |
