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| 1521 | Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines. |
| 1896 | Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby was born in Winters, Texas. |
| 1947 | "Babe Ruth Day" was held at Yankee Stadium to honor the ailing baseball star. |
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| 1965 | Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow died at age 57. |
| 1972 | Apollo 16 returned to Earth after a manned voyage to the moon. |
| 1982 | John W. Hinckley Jr. went on trial in Washington, D.C., in the shooting of President Ronald Reagan. (He was acquitted by reason of insanity.) |
| 1987 | The Justice Department barred Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. |
| 1992 | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro. |
| 1992 | Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. |
| 2006 | Construction began on a 1,776-foot building on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. |
| 2011 | More than 120 tornadoes raked the South and Midwest, resulting in 316 deaths across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. |
| 2011 | President Barack Obama produced a detailed Hawaii birth certificate in an extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born. |
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