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| 1869 | Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in Concord, N.H., at age 64. |
| 1918 | American Army Sgt. Alvin York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. |
| 1944 | "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS Radio. |
| 1945 | President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada. |
| 1956 | Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0 in Game 5. |
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| 1959 | Margaret Thatcher was first elected to the British Parliament as a Conservative representing the north London suburb of Finchley. |
| 1970 | Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. |
| 1982 | Poland banned all labor organizations, including Solidarity. |
| 1985 | The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumped his body and wheelchair overboard. |
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| 2001 | Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in as director of the new Office of Homeland Security. |
| 2004 | Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison to begin serving a sentence for lying about a stock sale. |
| 2005 | A major earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people. |
| 2011 | Al Davis, the Hall of Fame owner of the Oakland Raiders, died at age 82. |
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