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| 1634 | Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore. |
| 1807 | Britain abolished its slave trade. |
| 1894 | Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government. |
| 1913 | The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City. |
| 1957 | The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. |
| 1965 | The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. |
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| 1975 | King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. |
| 1988 | Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case." |
| 1992 | Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist. |
| 1994 | American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia. |
| 1996 | An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont. |
| 1996 | The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation. |
| 1998 | President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier. |
| 2002 | A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people. |
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