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On this date in history:

In 1619, in Jamestown, Va., the first elected legislative assembly in the New World -- the House of Burgesses -- convened in the choir loft of the town's church.

In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland was founded.

In 1930, Uruguay won the World Cup soccer tournament.

In 1932, Walt Disney released his first color cartoon, Flowers and Trees, made in three-color Technicolor.

In 1971,the lunar module Falcon of the Apollo 15 mission landed on the moon.

In 1974, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 21-17, approved a third article of impeachment against U.S. President Richard Nixon, charging him with ignoring congressional subpoenas. Nixon resigned -- just over a week later -- before he could be impeached.

In 1975, former Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa was last seen outside a suburban Detroit restaurant. He was declared dead in 1982.

In 2009, Britain, Australia and Romania pulled their remaining forces from Iraq, leaving the United States and its almost 130,000 troops as the sole remnant of the 2003 multinational invading coalition.

In 2010, more than 1,500 people were reported dead after Pakistan was wracked by record rainfall and massive flooding. Officials said 4 million people had been displaced.

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama told a campaign rally in New York: If the election were held today, I think it would be close but I think we'd win. Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in November. He won 332 electoral votes (270 required) and 51 percent of the popular vote.

In 2013, a military judge found Pfc. Bradley Manning, who released hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents to the WikiLeaks website, of violating the Espionage Act and other offenses but acquitted him on a charge of aiding the enemy. Manning was later sentenced to 35 years in prison, with the possibility of parole in eight years, and he officially changed his first name to Chelsea.

In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama, in a speech in Kansas City, had this message for Republicans: Stop being mad all the time. Stop. Stop. Stop just hatin' all the time.

 


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