| On this date in: |
| 1822 | Florida became a U.S. territory. |
| 1867 | Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal roundly ridiculed as "Seward's Folly." |
| 1870 | The 15th amendment to the Constitution, giving black men the right to vote, was declared in effect. |
| 1870 | Texas was readmitted to the Union. |
| 1945 | The Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II. |
| 1964 | The TV game show "Jeopardy!" premiered on NBC. |
| 1995 | Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical condemning abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws could legitimize. |
| 1999 | A jury in Portland, Ore., ordered Philip Morris to pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades. |
| 2002 | Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth died at age 101. |
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| 2006 | American reporter Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was released after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq. |
| 2009 | President Barack Obama asserted unprecedented government control over the auto industry, rejecting GM and Chrysler's restructuring plans and engineering the ouster of GM's chief executive, Rick Wagoner.. |
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