| On this date in: |
| 1802 | Washington, D.C., was incorporated. |
| 1898 | Israeli founder and prime minister Golda Meir was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev, Ukraine. |
| 1921 | West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax. |
| 1936 | Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio made his major league debut with the New York Yankees. |
| 1937 | Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel "Gone with the Wind." |
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| 1948 | The Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable. |
| 1960 | The musical "The Fantasticks" opened off-Broadway, beginning a record run of nearly 42 years. |
| 1971 | Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C. |
| 1971 | The National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" made its debut. |
| 1988 | The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan's activities. |
| 2001 | The United States lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. |
| 2005 | Iraq's first democratically elected government was sworn in. |
| 2007 | Astronaut Wally Schirra died at age 84. |
| 2010 | Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was apprehended aboard a flight preparing to depart New York for Dubai. |
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