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On this day for the United States
Events
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1584 -
Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit
Virginia.
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1634 - The first settlers arrive in
Maryland.
- 1655 -
Protestants take control of
Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.
- 1865 -
American Civil War: In
Virginia,
Confederate forces capture
Fort Stedman from the
Union in a bloody battle.
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1894 -
Coxey's Army, the first significant
American protest march, departs
Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
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1911 - In New York City the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
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1931 - The
Scottsboro Boys are arrested in
Alabama and charged with
rape.
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1947 - An explosion in a
coalmine in
Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
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1955 - United States
Customs seizes copies of
Allen Ginsberg's poem "
Howl" as obscene.
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1965 -
Civil rights activists led by
Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from
Selma to the capitol in
Montgomery.
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1979 - The first fully functional
Space Shuttle orbiter,
Columbia, is delivered to the
John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
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1990 - In
the Bronx, New York City, a
fire at an illegal
social club called "
Happy Land" kills 87 people.
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1996 - An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group
Montana Freemen and law enforcement near
Jordan, Montana, begins.
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2006 - The
Capitol Hill massacre occurs: a gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in
Seattle's
Capitol Hill neighborhood; it is one of the largest
crime scenes the city has ever had.