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In 1761, the first American life insurance policy was issued in Philadelphia to Rev. Francis Allison, whose premium was six pounds per year.
In 1939, the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy signed a “Pact of Steel” committing the two countries to a military alliance.
In 1960, an earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, struck southern Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives.
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking at the University of Michigan, outlined the goals of his “Great Society,” saying that it “rests on abundance and liberty for all” and “demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.”
In 1968, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, sank in the Atlantic Ocean. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.)
In 1998, a federal judge ruled that Secret Service agents could be compelled to testify before the grand jury in the Monica Lewinsky investigation.
In 2017, a suicide bomber set off an improvised explosive device that killed 22 people at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.
Ten years ago: Jordan Romero, at age 13, became the youngest climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest.
Five years ago: Ireland’s citizens voted in a landslide to legalize gay marriage, with 62.1% saying “yes” to changing the nation’s constitution to define marriage as a union between two people regardless of their gender.
One year ago: President Donald Trump left of a White House meeting with congressional leaders, declaring he would no longer work with Democrats unless they dropped all investigations in the aftermath of the special counsel’s Trump-Russia report; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was praying for Trump and the nation.