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| 1533 | England's King Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife. |
| 1759 | Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in Alloway. |
| 1787 | Shays' Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass. |
| 1890 | The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 1915 | The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated transcontinental telephone service in the United States. |
| 1947 | Gangster Al Capone died at age 48. |
| 1959 | American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707. |
| 1971 | Charles Manson and three female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. |
| 1995 | The defense gave its opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying Simpson was the victim of a "rush to judgment" by authorities. |
| 2006 | The Islamic militant group Hamas won a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections. |
| 2007 | Ford Motor Co. said it had lost a staggering $12.7 billion in 2006, the worst loss in the company's 103-year history. |
| 2011 | A federal judge in New York sentenced Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial, to life in prison for conspiring in the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. |
| 2011 | Egypt's revolution began as thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule. |
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