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1868 | Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer." |
1892 | The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot. |
1923 | Choreographer-director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago. |
1931 | Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. |
1947 | The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes. |
1956 | Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. |
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1969 | Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States. |
1992 | John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison. |
1993 | Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her. |
2005 | Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers. |
2009 | "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon died at 86. |
2010 | Following Gen. Stanley McChrystal's criticism of the Obama administration in a Rolling Stone magazine profile, President Barack Obama named Gen. David Petraeus to replace the Afghanistan commander. |
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