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| 1765 | Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies. |
| 1882 | Congress outlawed polygamy. |
| 1894 | Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played in Montreal. That city's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals 3-1. |
| 1895 | In what is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie – the one-minute "Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory" – to an invited audience in Paris. |
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| 1941 | The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation. |
| 1945 | The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. |
| 1946 | The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end. |
| 1962 | Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut at age 19 in the musical "I Can Get it For You Wholesale" at the Shubert Theater. |
| 1965 | Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home," his first featuring electric guitar, was released. |
| 1972 | Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. |
| 1990 | A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil. |
| 1991 | High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, N.H., of murder-conspiracy. |
| 1993 | Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip. |
| 1995 | Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993. |
| 1997 | Tara Lipinski of the United States became the youngest women's world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months. |
| 2006 | The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain. |
| 2010 | Google announced it would stop censoring search results on its site in China by shifting it from the mainland to Hong Kong. |
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