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In 1681, to satisfy a debt, England's King Charles II granted a royal charter, deed and the governorship of Pennsylvania to William Penn.

In 1789, the U.S. Congress met for the first time, in New York City.

In 1791, Vermont was admitted to the United States as the 14th state.

In 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington.

In 1837, the city of Chicago was incorporated.

In 1877, Swan Lake, a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was first performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

In 1917, Jeanette Rankin, a Montana Republican, was sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives. She was the first woman to serve in Congress.

In 1933, Frances Perkins was sworn in as U.S. labor secretary, becoming the first female member of the Cabinet.

In 1958, the U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus reached the North Pole by passing beneath the arctic ice cap.

In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan acknowledged his administration swapped arms to Iran for U.S. hostages and said, It was a mistake.

In 1994, four men were found guilty in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

In 1999, a U.S. Marine pilot whose plane had snapped a ski-lift cable in Italy, killing 20 people, was acquitted of charges of involuntary homicide and manslaughter.

In 2005, homemaking guru Martha Stewart returned home after serving five months in a federal prison for conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding and making false statements to federal investigators.

In 2008, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., clinched the Republican nomination for president with primary wins in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont.

In 2012, Vladimir Putin was again elected president of Russia.

In 2013, Sylvia Mathews Burwell was nominated to be director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. (She held he position until becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services in June of 2014.)

In 2014, a gunfire and bomb suicide attack at a court building in the heart of Islamambad killed at least 11 people, including a judge, and wounded about 30 others.

 


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