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| 1775 | The Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. |
| 1843 | The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in New York City. |
| 1845 | Texas ratified a state constitution. |
| 1903 | The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 to win the first World Series five games to three. |
| 1943 | Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner. |
| 1960 | Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of the presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood, Calif., and Kennedy in New York. |
| 1960 | The World Series ended with a home run for the first time as Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a round-tripper in the ninth inning of Game 7 against the New York Yankees. |
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| 1962 | "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee opened on Broadway. |
| 1981 | Egyptians voted in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. |
| 1998 | The NBA canceled the first two weeks of its regular season because of a lockout. |
| 1999 | The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months; prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation. |
| 2005 | British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in literature. |
| 2006 | The United Nations General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon the next U.N. secretary-general. |
| 2008 | The Dow Jones industrial average soared 936.42 points – it's largest one-day increase – ending eight consecutive days of stock market declines. |
| 2010 | Rescuers in Chile pulled 33 men one by one to freedom 69 days after they were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground. |
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