Houston Chronicle Sunday

LOOKING BACK

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1831: Nat Turner launched a slave rebellion in Virginia resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites. (He was later executed.)

1911: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (The painting was recovered two years later in Italy.)

1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state.

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