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In 1817, Simon Bolivar established the independent government of Venezuela.

In 1922, Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.

In 1938, Orson Welles triggered a national panic with a realistic radio dramatization of a martian invasion, based on H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.

In 1941, more than a month before the United States entered World War II, a U.S. destroyer, the USS Reuben James, was sunk by a German submarine.

In 1975, with dictator Francisco Franco near death, Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain. (Franco died three weeks later.)

In 1983, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to become the first African-American to mount a full-scale campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in the United States.

In 1995, by a narrow margin, Quebec voters decided to remain a part of Canada.

In 2005, Indian authorities sent army divers to look for people trapped in a derailed train near Veligonda during massive flooding. Officials said 112 died in the train wreck and another 100 in floods.

In 2008, the U.S. gross domestic product dropped 0.3 percent, government officials said. It was the first decrease in the GDP in 17 years.

In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced he would end the U.S. travel and immigration restrictions on people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

In 2010, security screening of cargo and air passengers in the United States, Britain and Canada was stepped up after bombs were found in packages from Yemen to two Chicago synagogues.

2012, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, commenting on the assault of massive storm Sandy, said, The devastation is unthinkable. The Republican governor praised President Barack Obama's response to the emergency: The president has been all over this. Obama, visiting Red Cross headquarters in Washington, said, New Jersey, New York, in particular, have been pounded ... Connecticut has taken a big hit. The storm, originally Hurricane Sandy, then reclassified as a post-tropical cyclone, had made landfall in New Jersey the previous evening.

In 2013, the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 at Fenway Park in Boston to win the World Series, four games to two.

 


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