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In 1789, crew members of the HMS Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, staged a mutiny, setting the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him reached Timor in 47 days.) In 1925, the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, which gave rise to the term “Art Deco,” began a six-month run in Paris. In 1945, dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans. In 1974, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans, accused of interfering in an investigation of financier Robert Vesco in exchange for a $200,000 contribution to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, were acquitted in federal court. In 1993, the first “Take Our Daughters to Work Day” was held in an attempt to boost the self-esteem of girls by having them visit a parent’s place of work. In 1996, a man with a semiautomatic rifle went on a rampage on the Australian island of Tasmania, killing 35 people; the gunman is serving a life prison sentence. Ten years ago: The first tax rebates were direct-deposited into bank accounts from a $168 billion federal stimulus package. Five years ago: Mohammed Sohel Rana, the fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building in Bangladesh that collapsed and killed more than 1,100 people, was captured as he tried to flee into India. One year ago: President Donald Trump told a National Rifle Association convention in Atlanta that “the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.”

Associated Press