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| 1605 | The Gunpowder Plot failed when Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. |
| 1872 | Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election. |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| 1935 | Parker Brothers began marketing the board game "Monopoly." |
| 1956 | Britain and France landed troops in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal. |
| 1968 | Republican Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
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| 1974 | Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected governor in the United States without succeeding her husband. |
| 1994 | Former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease. |
| 1994 | George Foreman became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. |
| 1996 | President Bill Clinton won a second term over former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. |
| 1999 | A federal judge declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly. |
| 2006 | Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity. |
| 2009 | A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was charged in the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. |
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