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| 1685 |
Composer George Frideric Handel was born in Germany. |
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1822 | Boston was granted a charter to incorporate as a city. |
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1836 | The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas. |
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1847 | U.S. troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican general Santa Anna
at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico. |
| 1848 | John
Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, died at age 80 in Washington, D.C., two days after suffering a stroke on the floor of the House of Representatives. |
| 1861 | President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly
in Washington to take office after an assassination plot was foiled in Baltimore. |
| 1870 |
Mississippi was readmitted to the Union. |
| 1927 |
President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission. |
| 1942 | The first shelling of the U.S. mainland
during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif. |
| 1954 |
The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began, in Pittsburgh. |
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1965 | Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy died at age 74. |
| 1981 | An attempted coup began in Spain as
200 members of the Civil Guard invaded the Parliament, taking lawmakers hostage. |
| 1991 |
President George H.W. Bush announced that the allied ground offensive against Iraqi forces had begun. |
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1997 | Scientists in Scotland announced they had cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb
named Dolly. |
| 1997 | A Palestinian man
opened fire on the observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building, killing one person and wounding six before shooting himself to death. |
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1999 | A jury in Jasper, Texas, convicted white supremacist John William King of murder in
the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr. |
| 2000 |
Carlos Santana won eight Grammy Awards for his album "Supernatural," tying the record set by Michael Jackson in 1983 for "Thriller." |
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| 2003 | Norah Jones won five Grammy Awards for the album
"Come Away With Me," tying the record for a female artist held by Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys, and since tied by Beyonce. |
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2004 | The Army canceled its Comanche helicopter program after sinking $6.9 billion into it over 21 years. |
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