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In 1869, the Suez Canal opened, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea via Egypt.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell granted a patent for the telephone.

In 1887, North Carolina State University was founded.

In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, an estimated 3,000 men rioted at the Detroit plant of the Ford Motor Co. Four were killed.

In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered Nazi troops into the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles.

In 1945, the U.S. 1st Army crossed the Rhine at Remagen in Germany. The bridge was the only one across the Rhine that hadn't been destroyed. World War II ended in Europe two months later.

In 1984, the U.S. Senate confirmed William Wilson as the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican in 117 years.

In 1985: We Are the World a song composed by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and recorded by a series of high-profile music stars is released worldwide with the intention of generating funds for the USA for Africa charity.

In 1997, a U.S. veto killed an otherwise unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution condemning new Jewish settlements in Arab East Jerusalem.

In 2002, More than 600 people were reported dead after several days of Hindu-Muslim violence in the state of Gujarat, India.

In 2004, V. Gene Robinson, openly gay and controversial, became the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire.

 

In 2006, U.S. prosecutors sought the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty to terrorism conspiracy leading to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

In 2007, an Indonesian Garuda Airlines Boeing 737-400 with 140 people aboard crashed and burned on landing in Yogyakarta, killing 49 people.

In 2008, a foreign policy aide to Barack Obama apologized for calling Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton a monster.

In 2010, violence marred Iraq's first parliamentary election in five years as two bombs in Baghdad killed at least 38 people.

In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama gave the green light for resumption of tribunals for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on hold since 2009.

Also in 2011, with the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Bulkeley leading the way, the multinational anti-piracy fleet thwarted a pirate takeover of a Bahamian-flagged oil tanker in the Arabian Sea 328 nautical miles southeast of Duqm, Oman.

And, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, thought to be one of the most active in the world, erupted, touching off more than 150 earthquakes but no reported damage.

In 2012, U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey told the Senate that U.S. President Barrack Obama wanted the Pentagon to provide him with military options on Syria.

Also in 2012, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound at least 24 hours before the procedure.


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