| On this date in: |
| 1850 |
California became the 31st state of the union. |
| 1926 |
The National Broadcasting Co. was incorporated by the Radio Corporation of America. |
| 1948 |
The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created. |
| 1957 |
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction. |
| 1965 |
Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs. |
| 1971 |
Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives. |
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| 1976 |
Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in Beijing at age 82. |
| 1993 |
The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. |
| 1997 |
Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army’s political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland’s future. |
| 2001 |
Afghanistan’s military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists. |
| 2003 |
The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases. |
| 2009 |
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted “You lie!” during President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress on health care. |
