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| 1822 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio. |
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| 1895 |
The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. |
| 1923 |
Actor Charlton Heston was born John Charles Carter in Evanston, Ill. |
| 1931 |
The comic strip “Dick Tracy” by Chester Gould made its debut. |
| 1957 |
Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union. |
| 1957 |
“Leave It to Beaver” premiered on CBS. |
| 1970 |
Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead of an accidental heroin overdose. |
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| 1990 |
German lawmakers held the first meeting of the reunified country’s parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin. |
| 1993 |
Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. |
| 2001 |
Authorities said a man in Boca Raton, Fla., had contracted the inhaled form of anthrax; he died the following day. |
| 2002 |
John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va. |
| 2002 |
Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes. |
| 2010 |
The Supreme Court began a new era with three women serving together for the first time as Elena Kagan took her place at the end of the bench. |
