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| 1783 | Author Washington Irving was born in New York City. |
| 1860 | The Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. |
| 1865 | Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. |
| 1882 | Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of his gang. |
| 1924 | Actor Marlon Brando was born in Omaha, Neb. |
| 1936 | Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, N.J., for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby. |
| 1968 | Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., less than 24 hours before he was assassinated.
 | Excerpt from King's speech |
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| AP Photo/Charles Kelley |
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| 1996 | Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. |
| 1998 | The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9,000 for the first time. |
| 2000 | A federal judge ruled that Microsoft Corp. had violated U.S. antitrust laws. |
| 2004 | Surrounded by police, five suspects in the Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up in a building outside the Spanish capital, also killing a special forces agent. |
| 2006 | Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty before an international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone. |
| 2009 | A Vietnamese immigrant opened fire in an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 13 people before taking his own life. |
| 2009 | Iowa's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. |
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