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| 1775 | U.S. forces captured Montreal during the American Revolution. |
| 1856 | Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was born in Louisville, Ky. |
| 1927 | The Holland Tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River opened to the public. |
| 1956 | The Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses. |
| 1974 | Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., was killed in a car crash. |
| 1979 | Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
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| 1982 | The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1985 | A mudslide triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried the city of Armero, Colombia, killing some 23,000 people. |
| 1998 | President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit. |
| 2002 | Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq. |
| 2003 | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had refused to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, was thrown off the bench by a judicial ethics panel. |
| 2009 | Attorney General Eric Holder announced plans to try professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others detained at Guantanamo Bay in civilian court in New York City. (The Obama administration later backed off the plan.) |
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