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1788 | New York became the 11th state to ratify the Constitution. |
1856 | Playwright George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland. |
1945 | Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservatives were soundly defeated by the Labor Party. He was succeeded by Clement Attlee. |
1947 | President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
1948 | President Harry S. Truman signed executive orders prohibiting discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment. |
1952 | Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. |
1956 | Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. |
1964 | Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund. |
1971 | Apollo 15 was launched on a manned mission to the moon. |
1990 | The House of Representatives reprimanded Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., for ethics violations. |
1990 | President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act. |
1990 | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a young woman – later identified as Kimberly Bergalis of Florida – had been infected with the AIDS virus, apparently by her dentist. |
2000 | A federal judge approved a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and more than a half million plaintiffs who alleged the banks had hoarded money deposited by Holocaust victims. |
2006 | A jury in Houston found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her children in a bathtub in the second trial she faced on the charges; she was committed to a state mental hospital. |
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