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1637 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.

1659 - The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed, ending the Franco-Spanish war of 1648-59.

1811 - 1,000 Americans led by General William Henry Harrison defeated the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippencanoe Creek near what is now Lafayette, Indiana.

1837 - United States abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was attacked and killed by a pro-slavery mob at his printing works in Alton, Illinois.

1872 - The United States cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it was found mysteriously abandoned the following month.

1874 - The Republican party elephant was born on this date. It was created by Thomas Nast's political cartoon in Harper's Weekly, attacking a possible third term for Republican President Ullyses S. Grant.

1876 - Albert H. Hook of New York City patented the cigarette manufacturing machine.

1885 - The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed as the final spike was driven in at Craigellachie, British Columbia. The 2,980-mile transcontinental railroad began in Montreal, Quebec, and ran between Montreal and Port Moody, B.C.

1893 - The state of Colorado granted women residents the right to vote.

1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.

1914 - For the first time, the "New Republic" magazine was printed.

1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.

1917 - Russian Bolsheviks under Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd.

1929 - The Museum of Modern Art in New York City was opened to the public.

1930 - Wayne King recorded what would become his theme song, "The Waltz You Save for Me", on Victor records.

1932 - CBS radio first aired "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". Between 1932 to 1947, Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played Buck over the years.

1937 - On CBS radio, "Dr. Christian" debuted. Jean Hersholt played elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on air until 1954. Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp at one point all played his nurse, Judy. The "Dr. Christian" theme song was "Rainbow on the River". Sponsors included Vaseline petroleum jelly, hair tonic and lip ice.

1938 - The soap opera, "This Day is Ours", was first heard on CBS radio. Eleanor McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had problems: her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a friend find a killer and many other traumas during the show's 2 year run.

1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm.

1944 - President Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt only lived long enough to serve 53 days of this fourth term.

1946 - In New York a coin-operated television receiver was displayed. To see various test patterns and a model of Felix the Cat, folks paid a quarter.

1947 - "Billboard" magazine started listing the 15 top popular records. Before this only 10 songs were listed.

1948 - "The Storm", became the first production of CBS-TV's "Studio One". Margaret Sullivan starred in it for $500. "Studio One" continued to 1958.

1951 - Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and film actress Ava Gardner were married in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

1956 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling upon Britain, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from Egypt immediately.

1956 - Elvis Presley hit the charts with "Love Me", the first million-seller to chart without being a single. It was an EP (extended play) 45 rpm, with three other songs: "Rip It Up", "Paralyzed" and "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" all on RCA Victor.

1961 - President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador resigned after months of increasing popular unrest.

1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

1963 - New York Yankee Elston Howard, was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player making him the first black player to receive the award.

1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor of a major city - Cleveland, Ohio.

1967 - President Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1970 - "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" was released by Chicago on Columbia. It was the group's third tune to hit the pop music charts, "Make Me Smile" and "25 or 6 to 4" were previous hits. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" reached #7 on the charts on January 7, 1971.

1972 - United States President Richard Nixon was re-elected for a second term, in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern. He became the first president to resign office.

1973 - United States and Egypt announced restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.

1973 - New Jersey became the first state in the United States that allowed girls to play on Little League baseball teams.

1976 - Gone With the Wind (Part I) had its world-wide television debut on NBC, and raked in a 47.7 Neilsen rating. Part II aired the next day, and did almost as well.

1979 - "The Rose", starring Bette Midler, premeired in California. The movie was designed after the life of Janis Joplin.

1980 - Steve McQueen, famous for roles in "The Getaway", "Papillon", "The Sand Pebbles" and others, passed away at age 50.

1984 - New York Jets quarterback, Joe Namath, married Deborah Lynn Mays.

1985 - Troops stormed Colombia's Palace of Justice to end a 24-hour siege by gunmen of the M-19 guerrilla movement; 95 people were killed.

1986 - The longest high school football winning streak to date ended. Canyon High, of Canyon Country, California, lost to Antelope Valley High 21-20. Canyon High racked up 46 consecutive wins before this.

1987 - Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, in office since independence in 1956, was overthrown in a bloodless coup.

1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Donny Lalonde in Las Vegas to win both the WBC light heavy-weight and super middleweight titles. He, and Thomas Hearns, were the only two boxers to hold five separate world crowns in their careers.

1989 - The East German government resigned after pro-democracy protests.

1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected black governor in United States history; David N. Dinkins was elected New York City's first black mayor.

1989 - Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg asked President Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the United States Supreme Court, citing the clamor that arose over Ginsburg's admission that he had smoked marijuana on occasion.

1990 - Mary Robinson was elected in Ireland's first presidential election in 17 years, becoming the country's first woman president.

1991 - NATO leaders approved an unprecedented formal link with their former East European foes and adopted a new post-Cold War strategy.

1991 - In a startling press conference, basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced that he had tested HIV-positive, and that he was retiring from the Los Angeles Lakers. The news upset the world.

1991 - A San Francisco Superior Court judge scheduled a trial date in a $6.2-million suit against comedian Robin Williams, which was filed five years earlier by ex-lover Michelle Tish Carter. Carter claimed that Williams gave her herpes in 1982.

1992 - Alexander Dubcek, Czech leader who sought to install "socialism with a human face" in the Prague Spring of 1968, died from injuries suffered in a car crash.