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1647 | Alse Young became the first person executed as a witch in America when she was hanged in Hartford, Conn. |
1896 | A tornado struck St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill., killing 255 people. |
1911 | Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was born in Wallace, S.D. |
1912 | Golfer Sam Snead was born in Ashwood, Va. |
1935 | The Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act. |
1937 | The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., opened.
| Louis Reggiardo, who helped build the bridge |
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1941 | The British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of more than 2,100 lives. |
1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister, died. |
1994 | Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after spending two decades in exile. |
1995 | Actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Va. |
1996 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiated a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the rebels' leader. |
1997 | The Supreme Court ruled Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he was in office. |
1998 | Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot. |
1999 | A U.N. tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president personally responsible for the horrors in Kosovo. |
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