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| 1412 |
According to tradition, Joan of Arc was born in Domremy, France. |
| 1540 |
England’s King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. |
| 1759 |
George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married. |
| 1838 |
Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J. |
| 1912 |
New Mexico became the 47th state. |
| 1919 |
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. |
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| 1945 |
George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y. |
| 1993 |
Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died at age 75. |
| 1994 |
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg in an assault planned by the ex-husband of her rival, Tonya Harding. |
| 2001 |
With the vanquished Vice President Al Gore presiding, Congress certified Republican George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election. |
| 2005 |
Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison.) |
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