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| 1886 | Poet Emily Dickinson died at age 55. |
| 1930 | Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo. |
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| 1948 | Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. |
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| 1969 | Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees. |
| 1970 | Two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests. |
| 1972 | Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Md., and left permanently paralyzed below the waist. |
| 1988 | The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. |
| 2001 | A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop. |
| 2003 | Texas Democrats returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma in a dispute over a redistricting plan. |
| 2006 | A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity, insisting he was still the country's president. |
| 2006 | The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states. |
| 2007 | The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who helped build the Christian right into a political force, died at age 73. |
| 2007 | Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died at age 51. |
| 2008 | California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the state could marry – a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned by the passage of Proposition 8 the following November. |
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