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1626 | Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now Manhattan. |
1886 | A labor demonstration for an eight-hour workday at Haymarket Square in Chicago turned into a riot when a bomb exploded. |
1927 | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded. |
1961 | A group of Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals. |
1980 | Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito died at age 87. |
1994 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed an accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. |
1998 | Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty. |
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2000 | Londoners elected their mayor for the first time. |
2006 | A federal judge sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. |
2007 | Paris Hilton was sentenced to jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. (The hotel heiress served 23 days behind bars.) |
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