| On this date in: |
| 1863 | West Virginia became the 35th state. |
| 1893 | A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. |
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| 1943 | Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit. |
| 1948 | The TV variety series "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan debuted on CBS. |
| 1963 | The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers. |
| 1967 | Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. (The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.) |
| 1975 | The movie "Jaws" was released. |
| 1994 | O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman. |
| 1999 | As the last of 40,000 Yugoslav troops left Kosovo, NATO declared a formal end to its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. |
| 2001 | Andrea Yates drowned her five children, who ranged in age from 6 months to 7 years, in the bathtub in her family's home in Houston. |
| 2002 | The U.S. Supreme Court declared that executing mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel. |
| 2007 | Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs. |
| 2009 | Neda Agha Soltan, 27, was gunned down during election protests in Tehran. |
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