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| 1614 | Pocahontas, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan tribe, married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia. |
| 1792 | George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states. |
| 1856 | Black educator Booker T. Washington was born in Franklin County, Va. |
| 1895 | Playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused the writer of homosexual practices. |
| 1908 | Actress Bette Davis was born in Lowell, Mass. |
| 1951 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. |
| 1976 | Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died at age 72. |
| 1984 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points. (He still holds the career record with with 38,387 points.) |
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| 1987 | Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut.
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| 2008 | Actor Charlton Heston died at age 84. |
| 2010 | An explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, W.Va., killed 29 workers. |
| 2010 | In a televised rescue, 115 Chinese coal miners were freed after spending eight days trapped in a flooded mine, surviving an accident that had killed 38. |
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