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| 1789 | The U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York City. |
| 1853 | Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first U.S. city to pay its firefighters a regular salary. |
| 1873 | Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in Russia. |
| 1918 | Britain's Royal Air Force was established. |
| 1933 | Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. |
| 1960 | The first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral. |
| 1970 | President Richard Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV. |
| 1976 | Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. |
| 1984 | Singer Marvin Gaye, 44, was shot to death by his father. |
| 1987 | In his first major speech on the epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1." |
| 1999 | A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 million computers worldwide. |
| 2001 | Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour armed standoff with police at his Belgrade villa. |
| 2003 | American troops rescued Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, where she had been held prisoner since her unit was ambushed nine days earlier. |
| 2008 | The Pentagon made public a legal memo dated March 14, 2003, that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects. |
| 2009 | Benjamin Netanyahu took office as Israel's prime minister for a second time. |
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