| On this date in: |
| 1920 | Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseball's first commissioner. |
| 1942 | The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. |
| 1948 | Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. |
| 1954 | Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892. |
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| 1982 | Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. |
| 1985 | Xavier Suarez was elected Miami's first Cuban-American mayor. |
| 1990 | Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne. |
| 1997 | Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. |
| 1999 | President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products. |
| 2001 | An American Airlines flight crashed near New York's Kennedy airport, killing 265 people. |
| 2004 | A jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.) |
| 2009 | Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre. |
| 2011 | Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned. |
| 2011 | The Arab League voted to suspend Syria over the country's bloody crackdown on protesters. |
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