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| 1831 | Nat Turner launched a short-lived, violent slave rebellion in Virginia. |
| 1858 | The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place in Ottawa, Ill. |
| 1878 | The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y. |
| 1904 | Jazz musician and bandleader William "Count" Basie was born in Red Bank, N.J. |
| 1959 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. |
| 1983 | Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport. |
| 1987 | Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB. |
| 1991 | A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris Yeltsin. |
| 2002 | A jury in San Diego convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (He was later sentenced to death.) |
| 2006 | British prosecutors announced that 11 people had been charged in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners bound for the United States. |
| 2009 | Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gays and lesbians from serving as ministers. |
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