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| 1681 | England's King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for an area of land that later became Pennsylvania. |
| 1789 | The Constitution went into effect as the first Congress met in New York City. |
| 1791 | Vermont became the 14th state. |
| 1837 | The Illinois state legislature granted a city charter to Chicago. |
| 1913 | Woodrow Wilson was sworn as the 28th president of the United States. |
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| 1917 | Republican Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd president, pledging to lead the country out of the Great Depression.
 | Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." |
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| 1933 | Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in the Cabinet when she took over as secretary of labor. |
| 1952 | Actors Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in North Hollywood, Calif. |
| 1987 | President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal. |
| 1989 | Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced plans to merge. |
| 1997 | President Bill Clinton barred spending federal money on human cloning.
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| 2012 | Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia's presidential election to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power for six more years. |
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