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| 1775 |
The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. |
| 1843 |
The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith was founded in New York City. |
| 1845 |
Texas ratified a state constitution. |
| 1903 |
The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three. |
| 1925 |
Margaret Thatcher, the first female British prime minister, was born Margaret Roberts in Grantham, England. |
| 1943 |
Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. |
| 1960 |
Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York. |
| 1960 |
The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees. |
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| 1962 |
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee opened on Broadway. |
| 1981 |
Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. |
| 1998 |
The NBA canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout. |
| 1999 |
The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months; prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old’s strangulation. |
| 2005 |
British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature. |
| 2006 |
The United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon the next U.N. secretary-general. |
| 2008 |
The Dow Jones industrial average soared 936.42 points – it’s largest one-day increase – ending eight consecutive days of stock market declines. |
| 2010 |
Rescuers in Chile pulled 33 men one by one to freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground. |
