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In 1707, a union between England and Scotland was formed, and it was named Britain.
In 1893 President Grover Cleveland opened the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago’s Jackson Park.
In 1918 former “Tonight Show” host Jack Paar was born in Canton, Ohio.
In 1931 the Empire State Building was dedicated in New York City. Also in 1931 the Baha’i House of Worship was opened in Wilmette.
In 1941 the Orson Welles motion picture “Citizen Kane” opened in New York.
In 1945 Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels killed himself as Russian troops stormed Berlin; he
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In 1948 North Korea was proclaimed the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.
In 1950 Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks became the first black to win a Pulitzer Prize, honoring her book “Annie Allen.”
In 1951 Minnie Minoso makes his White Sox debut, becoming the first black player to play for the South Siders.
In 1967 entertainer Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas. (They divorced in October 1973.)
In 1971 Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, began operation.
In 1992, on the third day of the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King publicly appealed for calm, asking, “Can we all get along?”
In 1999 Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic agreed to hand over three captured U.S. soldiers to the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
In 2003 President George W. Bush, speaking from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, declared major combat in Iraq over. Also in 2003 a magnitude 6.4 earthquake killed 177 people in Turkey.
In 2006 hundreds of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrants in the U.S. skipped work and took to the streets, flexing their economic muscle in a nationwide boycott. Also in 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Anna Nicole Smith could pursue part of her late husband’s oil fortune. Also in 2006 Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalized the country’s vast natural gas industry.
In 2010 an SUV rigged with a homemade bomb made from fireworks and fertilizer was parked in New York City’s Times Square, where it was discovered smoking and reported to authorities. (Faisal Shahzad, 30, a Pakistani-American with ties to the Pakistan Taliban was arrested two days later after he had borded a flight to Dubai at John F. Kennedy International Airport. He was sentenced in October 2010 to life in prison.)
In 2013 authorities charged Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, with conspiracy to obstruct justice. A third friend, Robel Phillipos, was charged with making false statements to federal agents. Also in 2013 archaeologists and forensic scientists announced evidence of cannibalism at Historic Jamestown in 1609-10.