1933
"I'm glad it was me instead of you."
Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, allegedly offering the final words engraved at the site of the shooting.
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1764
St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.
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1879
President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
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1898
USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.
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1913
The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse.
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1965
The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.
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1989
More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.
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2002
Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.
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2003
Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.
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2012
A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360.
