| 812:
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Election of Louis, son of Charlemagne, as Holy Roman Emperor
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| 813:
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Coronation, by his own hand, of Louis I "the Pious," as Holy Roman Emperor
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| 1227:
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Plague strikes the 5th Crusade, of Fredrick II, ending it
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| 1297:
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Scots under William Wallace defeat English at Stirling Bridge
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| 1458:
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Italian writer Bernardo Accolti (Virginia) born
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| 1522:
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Italian biologist and medical experimentor Ulisse Aldrovandi born
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| 1523:
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Poet Pierre de Ronsard born
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| 1525:
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Elector of Brandenburg Johan Georg (1571-91) born
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| 1589:
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Barbara Huebmeyer, Appela Huebmeyer and Anna Schnelling burned as witches
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| 1649:
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Massacre of Drogheada, on orders of Oliver Cromwell
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| 1672:
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Colonial American clergyman Solomon Stoddard, 29, was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Northampton, Mass. He remained at this pulpit for the next 57 years
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| 1695:
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Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks at the Battle of Zenta
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| 1700:
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Songwriter James Thomson (Rule Britannia) born
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| 1700:
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Neoclassical English poet James Thompson - "The Seasons" and "The Task,"
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| 1709:
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John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, wins the bloodiest battle of the 18th century at great cost, against the French at Malplaquet
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| 1733:
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Francois Couperin died. This prolific Baroque composer reportedly said: "Since hardly anyone has composed more than I have, I hope my family will find in my wallet something to make them regret my passing."
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| 1740:
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The first mention of an African American doctor or dentist in the colonies is made in the Pennsylvania Gazette
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| 1777:
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Troops commanded by General George Washington were defeated by the British under General Sir William Howe in the Battle of Brandywine
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| 1786:
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The Convention of Annapolis opens with the aim of revising the articles of confederation
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| 1789:
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Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first US Secretary of the Treasury
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| 1798:
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German mineralogist, mathematician and physicist Franz E Neumann born
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| 1802:
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Piedmont, Italy, is annexed by France
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| 1814:
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An American fleet, led by Thomas Macdonough, scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812
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| 1841:
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All members of President John Tyler's Cabinet resigned, except Secretary of State Daniel Webster, in protest of Tyler's veto of a banking bill
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| 1851:
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The Swedish singer Jenny Lind began touring America in the first private railroad car
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| 1857:
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Mormon fanatic John D. Lee, angered over President Buchanan's order to remove Brigham Young from governorship of the Utah Territory, incited a band of Mormons and Indians to massacre a California-bound wagon train of 135 in Mountain Meadows, Utah
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| 1862:
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American short story writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) -"The Gift of the Magi," and "The last Leaf" born
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| 1864:
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A 10-day truce is declared between generals Sherman and Hood so civilians may leave Atlanta, Georgia
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| 1885:
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Author D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers born
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| 1895:
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Sergei Rachmaninoff, already famous as a pianist, finished his First Symphony. The performance was terrible, the symphony failed and Rachmaninoff went into psychoanalysis for two years before he could compose again
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| 1897:
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A strike by coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia ended, with the miners winning an eight-hour work day. (The day before, about 20 miners were killed when sheriff's deputies opened fire on them in Pennsylvania.)
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| 1899:
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Country singer and former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis born
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| 1902:
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German Marxist philosopher Theodor Adorno. born
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| 1913:
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University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant born
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| 1917:
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Jessica Mitford, writer who championed civil rights. She is best known for her book The American Way of Death. born
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| 1917:
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Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos born
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| 1918:
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The volunteer medical aide Ernest Hemingway left the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan after leg injuries of an indeterminate nature. He fell in love with one of the nurses, Agnes von Kurovsky
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| 1923:
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Actress Betsy Drake born
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| 1924:
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Football Hall-of-Famer Tom Landry - Coach of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team, who won two Super Bowls born
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| 1926:
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Actor Lee Richardson born
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| 1928:
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Actor Earl Holliman born
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| 1928:
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The first coast-to-coast busline service in America began
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| 1936:
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President Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada
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| 1940:
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Movie director Brian De Palma born
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| 1943:
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Singer-actress-dancer Lola Falana born
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| 1943:
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Rock musician Mickey Hart (The Grateful Dead) born
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| 1944:
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President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
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| 1945:
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Singer-musician Leo Kottke born
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| 1954:
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Actor Reed Birney born
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| 1954:
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The "Miss America" pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner
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| 1957:
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Musician Jon Moss (Culture Club) born
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| 1958:
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Rock musician Mick Talbot (The Style Council) born
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| 1962:
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Actress Kristy McNichol born
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| 1962:
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The Beatles recorded their first single for EMI, "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You," at EMI studios in London
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| 1962:
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Thurgood Marshall appointed a judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
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| 1963:
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Actress Virginia Madsen born
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| 1964:
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Actress Roxann Dawson ("Star Trek born
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| 1965:
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Musician-composer Moby born
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| 1965:
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The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), arrives in South Vietnam and is stationed at An Khe
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| 1967:
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Singer Harry Connick Junior born
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| 1967:
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"The Carol Burnett Show" premiered on CBS
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| 1968:
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Rock musician Bart Van Der Zeeluw (K's Choice) born
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| 1969:
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"Great White Wonder", said to be the first bootleg record album, appeared in record stores in Los Angeles. The two-record set featured unreleased Bob Dylan songs
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| 1970:
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Actress Laura Wright ("Guiding Light") born
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| 1971:
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Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77
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| 1973:
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The elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, of Chile, was toppled in a right-wing military coup supported by the CIA. Allende died, reportedly by his own hand
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| 1974:
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"Little House On The Prairie" starring Michael Landon made its television debut. The show also starred Melissa Gilbert
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| 1977:
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Rapper Mr. Black born
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| 1978:
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Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian defector, died at a British hospital four days after being stabbed by a man wielding a poisoned umbrella tip
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| 1982:
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Chris Evert Lloyd won her sixth U.S. Open by defeating Hana Mandlikova 6-3, 6-1
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| 1984:
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President Reagan announced he would meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko at the White House on September 28
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| 1985:
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Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds cracked career hit number 4,192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres, eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb
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| 1985:
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A U.S. satellite glided through the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet in the first-ever on-the-spot sampling of a comet
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| 1986:
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On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 86.61 points, ending the day at 1,792.89
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| 1987:
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The CBS TV network went "black" for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of "The CBS Evening News" because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime. (The tennis coverage ended abruptly, catching the anchorman off guard.)
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| 1988:
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Mats Wilander of Sweden won the men's US Open title in New York
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| 1989:
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The exodus of East German refugees from Hungary to West Germany by way of Austria began
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| 1990:
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President Bush addressed Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis, vowing that "Saddam Hussein will fail" in his takeover of Kuwait
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| 1991:
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Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the Kremlin would withdraw thousands of troops from Cuba, a move bitterly denounced by the Havana government
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| 1991:
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In the Middle East, hopes grew for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon after Israel freed 51 prisoners
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| 1992:
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Hurricane "Iniki" struck Hawaii, leaving at least five people dead and more than ten-thousand homes damaged or destroyed
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| 1992:
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President Bush announced he was approving the sale of 72 F-15 jet fighters to Saudi Arabia
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| 1993:
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Antoine Izmery, a prominent supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was shot and killed outside a church in Port-au-Prince; the UN mission accused Haitian armed forces of involvement
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| 1993:
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Conductor Erich Leinsdorf died in Zurich, Switzerland, at age 81
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| 1994:
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Actress Jessica Tandy died in Easton, Connecticut, at age 85
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| 1994:
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At the 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, "Frasier" won best comedy series while "Picket Fences" was named best drama series
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| 1994:
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Andre Agassi won the men's championship at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, defeating Michael Stich
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| 1995:
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The prosecution in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles reluctantly began its rebuttal case, as ordered by Judge Lance Ito, after the defense refused to rest
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| 1996:
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Two top officials with the Health and Human Services Department resigned over President Clinton's signing of the Republican welfare overhaul bill (another official had resigned the month before)
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| 1996:
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Hurricane "Hortense" continued churning its way through the Caribbean
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| 1997:
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The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."
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| 1997:
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Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England
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| 1998:
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Russia's fractious parliament came together and confirmed compromise candidate Yevgeny Primakov as prime minister
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| 1998:
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Divers off Nova Scotia recovered the cockpit voice recorder from Swissair Flight 111, which had crashed September second with 229 people aboard
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| 1998:
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Congress released Kenneth Starr's voluminous report that offered graphic details of President Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice; the president's attorneys quickly issued a point-by-point rebuttal
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| 1999:
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President Clinton, attending a conference of Asia-Pacific leaders in New Zealand, demanded that Indonesia allow an international force to restore peace in East Timor
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| 1999:
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Serena Williams won the U.S. Open women's title, beating top-seeded Martina Hingis, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4)
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| 1999:
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Eric Milton pitched a no-hitter for the Minnesota Twins in their 7-0 win over the Anaheim Angels
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| 2001:
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Terrorists crash hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon
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| 2005:
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Katrina survivor searchers prepare for the worst
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| 2005:
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Red Cross asks for more volunteers
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| 2005:
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Chile remembers its own September 11 anniversary
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| 2005:
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UK Chancellor blames OPEC for oil crisis, refuses to cut fuel tax
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| 2005:
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Loyalist rioting erupts in Belfast
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| 2005:
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Katrina raised gas prices higher than ever
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| 2006:
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Wrong way yacht race postponed
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| 2006:
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German police seize Tor anonymity servers
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| 2006:
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OPEC to keep oil production at current levels
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| 2006:
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Al-Qaeda releases 9/11 message
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| 2006:
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CMSU computing team discovers another record size prime
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| 2006:
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King of Tonga dies, aged 88
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| 2006:
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Lucknow: Convent school ransacked by BJYM activists
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| 2006:
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Pope visits homeland in Germany
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| 2007:
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Second video of Osama bin Laden surfaces
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| 2007:
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SEMI predicts Taiwan will become the second largest semiconductor industry market in 2007
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| 2007:
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Twenty20 World Championship: West Indies vs South Africa
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| 2007:
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Adam Air ticket sales revive after post-crash slump
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| 2007:
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20-year-old captures abusive police officer on tape
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| 2007:
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Downing Street welcomes new resident cat
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| 2007:
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Rugby World Cup: Argentina 33 - 3 Georgia
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| 2008:
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Norwegian airline opens new domestic destinations from Moss Airport, Rygge
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| 2008:
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Large earthquakes reported in Indonesia and Japan
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| 2009:
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September 11 attacks remembered in US
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| 2009:
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England and Wales Director of Public Prosecutions to seek bomb plot retrial
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| 2009:
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California lawmaker denies affairs after sexual discussion becomes public
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| 2009:
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Businessman in India's 'house of horrors' case has rape, murder convictions overturned
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| 2009:
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World's oldest person dies in California at age 115
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| 2009:
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Timothy Dalton to voice a character in Toy Story 3
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| 2009:
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Man banned from keeping animals after forcing cat to inhale cannabis
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| 2009:
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US and Vietnam begin talks to decontaminate areas affected by Agent Orange
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| 2009:
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Deadly flash flooding hits northwestern Turkey
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| 2009:
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Musician Phil Collins announces he will never play drums again
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| 2010:
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Aboriginal primacy bill introduced to the New South Wales legislative assembly
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History
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Painter, poet and novelist, D.H. Lawrence born in Eastwood, England
College Football Hall of Fame coach, Paul "Bear" Bryant born in Moro Bottom, Arkansas
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach, Tom Landry born in Mission, Texas
Singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist, Leo Kottke born in Athens, Georgia
ALMA Award winning actress Roxann Dawson born Roxann Caballero in Los Angeles, California
