On This Date BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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1788
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Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.
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1868
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Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
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1950
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War broke out on the Korean peninsula as
forces from the communist North invaded the South.
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1951
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The first commercial color telecast took place
as CBS transmitted
a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.
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1962
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The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an
unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was
unconstitutional.
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1967
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The Beatles performed a new song, "All
You Need Is Love," during a live international telecast.
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1973
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Former White House Counsel John Dean began
testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.
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1991
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The Yugoslav republics of Croatia and
Slovenia declared their independence.
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1995
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Warren E. Burger, the 15th chief justice of
the United States, died at age 87.
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1996
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A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured
hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
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1997
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An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's
Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a
pressurized laboratory.
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1998
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The Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto
law as unconstitutional.
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2005
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Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
was declared the winner of Iran's presidential runoff election.
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2009
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Michael Jackson died from an overdose of the
powerful anesthetic propofol. (The 50-year-old singer's doctor, Conrad
Murray, has pleaded innocent to involuntary manslaughter.)
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