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| 1790 | John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in Charles City County, Va. |
| 1867 | Baseball Hall of Famer Cy Young was born in Gilmore, Ohio. |
| 1882 | The Knights of Columbus was chartered in Connecticut. |
| 1951 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. |
| 1962 | Jack Paar hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the final time. |
| 1971 | Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. (He spent three years under house arrest.) |
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| 1971 | A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (The sentences were later commuted.) |
| 1992 | Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with marijuana "a time or two" while attending Oxford University, adding, "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again." |
| 1999 | Wayne Gretzky of the New York Rangers scored the last of his National Hockey League record 894 goals in a home game against the New York Islanders. |
| 1999 | The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time. |
| 2002 | Israel declared Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat an enemy and sent tanks and armored personnel carriers to fully isolate him in his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah. |
| 2006 | Hamas formally took over the Palestinian government. |
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