| On this date in: |
| 1759 | The French surrendered Quebec to the British. |
| 1793 | President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. |
| 1810 | Chile declared its independence from Spain. |
| 1850 | Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states. |
| 1851 | The first edition of The New York Times was published. |
| 1905 | Actress Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 1927 | The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations. |
| 1947 | The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a national military establishment, went into effect. |
| 1970 | Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose at age 27. |
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| 1975 | Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. |
| 1997 | Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm. |
| 2009 | Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in defiance of Iran's Islamic leadership, clashing with police and confronting state-run anti-Israel rallies. |
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