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In 1602, Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.

In 1886 poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst, Mass.; she was 55.

In 1902 Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley was born in Chicago.

In 1911 the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

In 1914 Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who would be the first person — with Edmund Hillary in 1953 — to ascend Mount Everest, was born in Solo Khumbu, Nepal.

In 1918 U.S. airmail began service among Washington, Philadelphia and New York.

In 1937 Madeleine Albright, America’s first female secretary

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In 1948 the day-old state of Israel was attacked by Egyptian planes and invaded by troops from Lebanon and Trans-Jordan.

In 1970 two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire on a campus demonstration.

In 1972 Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination; Wallace was paralyzed for the rest of his life.

In 1988 the Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, eight years after its forces had entered the country.

In 1996 Bob Dole announced he was leaving the Senate after 27 years to challenge Bill Clinton for the presidency full-time.

In 1997 space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia’s orbiting Mir station.

In 2001 a runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.

In 2002 the White House acknowledged that in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks President George W. Bush was told by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network might hijack American airplanes, but that officials didn’t know that suicide hijackers were plotting to use planes as missiles.

In 2006 a defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq’s president as a judge formally charged him with crimes against humanity. Also in 2006 the Pentagon disclosed the names of everyone detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since it opened four years earlier.

In 2007 the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Baptist preacher who turned conservative Christians into a political powerhouse when he founded the Moral Majority, died in Lynchburg, Va.; he was 73.

In 2008 the California Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that same-sex should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory.

In 2012 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and one of Latin America’s best-known authors, died; he was 83.

In 2014 President Barack Obama joined survivors, victims’ families and other attendees at the dedication of the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony in New York City.

In 2015 a federal jury sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death.