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| 1743 | The first recorded town meeting in America was held, at Faneuil Hall in Boston. |
| 1794 | Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin. |
| 1883 | Political philosopher Karl Marx died at age 64. |
| 1900 | Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act. |
| 1939 | The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation. |
| 1951 | United Nations forces recaptured Seoul during the Korean War. |
| 1964 | A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. |
| 1967 | President John F. Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 2004 | Opposition Socialists scored a dramatic upset win in Spain's general election, unseating conservatives stung by charges they'd provoked the Madrid terror bombings by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq. |
| 2004 | Russian President Vladimir Putin captured more than 70 percent of the vote to win a second term in an election that European observers said fell short of democratic standards. |
| 2005 | A judge in San Francisco ruled that California's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. |
| 2005 | About 1 million people rallied in Beirut, Lebanon, demanding Syrian withdrawal and the arrest of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's killers. |
| 2008 | Protests led by Buddhist monks in Tibet turned violent, leading to an extensive crackdown by China's military. |
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