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| 1521 | Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month. |
| 1802 | Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. |
| 1836 | The Republic of Texas approved a constitution. |
| 1850 | "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published. |
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| 1926 | Rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass. |
| 1935 | Adolf Hitler scrapped the Treaty of Versailles. |
| 1968 | U.S. troops gunned down hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War. |
| 1985 | Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut.
 | AP photographer Donald Mell witnessed the abduction. |
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| 2003 | Vice President Dick Cheney predicted on NBC's "Meet the Press" that American troops would be "greeted as liberators" by the Iraqi people. |
| 2003 | Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home in Gaza. |
| 2005 | A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci. |
| 2008 | Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces; the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland. |
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