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| 1607 | An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia. |
| 1842 | Composer Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London. |
| 1846 | The United States declared that a state of war existed against Mexico. |
| 1914 | Boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Ala. |
| 1917 | Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
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| 1958 | Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. |
| 1985 | Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire. |
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| 1992 | The Falun Gong movement had its beginning as the sect's founder, Li Hongzhi, began publicly lecturing on his spiritual philosophy in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun. |
| 2003 | The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters. |
| 2011 | Two suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits heading home after months of training in northwest Pakistan, killing 87 people in what the Pakistan Taliban called revenge for the U.S. slaying of Osama bin Laden. |
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