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| 1755 | John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born in Germantown, Virginia. |
| 1789 | Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court. |
| 1869 | Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin. |
| 1955 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver. |
| 1957 | The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
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| 1960 | The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va. |
| 1968 | ''60 Minutes'' premiered on CBS. |
| 1969 | A trial began for the ''Chicago Eight,'' who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention. |
| 1976 | Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. |
| 1991 | Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87. |
| 1991 | The album ''Nevermind'' by Nirvana was released. |
| 1995 | Israel and the PLO agreed to sign a pact at the White House ending nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities. |
| 1996 | The world's major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. |
| 1998 | Redesigned $20 bills meant to be harder to counterfeit went into circulation. |
| 1999 | Kip Kinkel, 17, abandoned an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to killing his parents and two classmates at his school in Springfield, Ore. |
| 2001 | President George W. Bush froze the assests of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups. |
| 2002 | British Prime Minister Tony Blair asserted that Iraq had a growing arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and planned to use them, as he unveiled an intelligence dossier to a special session of Parliament. |
| 2003 | The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature adopted a redistricting plan favoring the GOP after four turbulent months, three special legislative sessions and two Democratic walkouts. |
