1969
James Earl Ray gets 99 years
James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.
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1629
Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.
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1785
Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France.
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1848
Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
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1864
U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
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1876
The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
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1948
The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
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