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| 1901 | Queen Victoria died at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne. |
| 1905 | Russian troops opened fired on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday." |
| 1922 | Pope Benedict XV died. |
| 1938 | Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premiered in Princeton, N.J. |
| 1944 | Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II. |
| 1953 | The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway. |
| 1968 | "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC. |
| 1970 | The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London. |
| 1973 | Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64. |
| 1995 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104. |
| 1997 | The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state. |
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| 1998 | Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. |
| 2006 | Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, took office. |
| 2008 | Actor Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead of an accidental prescription drug overdose. |
| 2008 | Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges. |
| 2009 | President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects. |
| 2010 | Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure on "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months. |
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