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| 1639 | - | Harvard U named for clergyman John Harvard |
| 1677 | - | Mass gains title to Maine for $6 -000 |
| 1781 | - | "Sir William Herschel sees \""comet\"" (really Uranus)" |
| 1852 | - | Uncle Sam debuts in NY Lantern |
| 1868 | - | Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial |
| 1877 | - | Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler |
| 1881 | - | Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated |
| 1884 | - | US adopts standard time |
| 1901 | - | Benjamin Harrison - 23rd pres - dies in Indianapolis |
| 1906 | - | American suffragist Susan B Anthony dies |
| 1925 | - | Tenn law prohibits teaching evolution |
| 1928 | - | 400 die in St Francis Dam burst (Calif) |
| 1930 | - | Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory |
| 1938 | - | Anschluá -- Austria joins Nazi Germany |
| 1938 | - | Attorney Clarence S Darrow dies |
| 1964 | - | Kitty Genovese stabbed dead - 40 witness attack in Queens |
| 1969 | - | Apollo 9 returns to Earth |
| 1970 | - | Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer |
| 1970 | - | SF city employees start 4 day strike |
| 1979 | - | Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement |
| 1979 | - | Isle\s Mike Bossy\s 5th career hat trick |
| 1985 | - | Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) |
| 1986 | - | Soyuz T-15 launched |
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