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On this date in history:

In 1845, Florida was admitted to the United States as the 27th state.

In 1875, Carmen by Georges Bizet premiered in Paris.

In 1879, attorney Belva Ann Lockwood became the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1923, Time magazine published its first issue.

In 1931, an act of Congress designated The Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem of the United States.

In 1974, a Turkish jetliner crashed near Paris, killing 345 people.

In 1985, coal miners in Britain ended a yearlong strike, the longest and costliest labor dispute in British history.

In 1986, the U.S. President's Commission on Organized Crime, ending a 32-month investigation, called for drug testing of most working Americans, including all federal employees.

In 1991, home video captured a Los Angeles police beating of motorist Rodney King that triggered a national debate on police brutality. (Acquittal of the LAPD officers in 1992 led to deadly riots during which King asked at a news conference, Can we all get along? King died at the age of 47 in 2012.)

In 1993, Dr. Albert Sabin, the medical pioneer who helped conquer polio, died at his home of heart failure. He was 86.

In 1997, former CIA official Harold Nicholson pleaded guilty to spying for Russia. (He was sentenced to 23 years and seven months in prison.)

In 2006, former U.S. Rep. Randy Cunningham, R-Calif., was sentenced to eight years in prison for taking $2.4 million in bribes from military contractors. (Cunningham was released from prison in 2013.)

In 2010, same-sex marriages became legal in the District of Columbia.

In 2013, Mitt Romney said he hoped to continue to have some influence in the Republican Party despite his loss in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.

In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama told Russia its seizure of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula would be a costly proposition and warned of possible economic sanctions.

 


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