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In 1563, the Peace of Amboise ended the first War of Religion in France, with the Huguenots granted limited toleration to exercise their religion.

In 1628 the English founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1813 David Livingstone, the missionary and explorer who influenced Western views of Africa, was born in Blantyre, Scotland.

In 1831 the country’s first bank robbery occurred when $245,000 was taken from New York’s City Bank.

In 1848 Wyatt Earp, who would become a legendary American frontiersman and lawman, was born in Monmouth, Ill.

In 1860 William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic and Populist leader who ran three times for the presidency, was born in Salem, Ill.

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In 1891 Earl Warren, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, was born in Los Angeles.

In 1917 the Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour work day for railroads. Also in 1917 Alaska’s territorial legislature granted suffrage to women.

In 1918 Congress approved daylight-saving time.

In 1928 the radio show “Amos ’n’ Andy” made its debut on WMAQ in Chicago.

In 1931 Nevada legalized gambling.

In 1953 the Oscar ceremonies in Los Angeles were televised for the first time.

In 1962 a cease-fire in Algeria ended seven years of warfare between the French and nationalists in the North African colony.

In 1977 after seven seasons, CBS broadcast the final episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

In 1982, 27 people were killed in the crash of a National Guard jet tanker near Greenwood, Ill.

In 1987 televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary from Oklahoma.

In 1990 Latvia’s political opposition claimed victory in the republic’s first free elections in 50 years.

In 1993 Supreme Court Justice Byron White announced plans to retire. (White’s departure paved the way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the court’s second female justice.)

In 1996 Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination with solid primary victories in four Midwestern states.

In 2001 California officials declared a power alert, ordering the first of two days of rolling blackouts.

In 2006 Tennessee’s Candace Parker became the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game, jamming one-handed on a breakaway just 6:12 into the Lady Vols’ 102-54 victory against Army.

In 2011 NATO action begins in Libya as more than 110 Tomahawk missiles fired from American and British ships and submarines hit about 20 Libyan air- and missile-defense targets.

In 2013 a mortar explosion killed seven Marines and injured seven others, including a sailor, during training at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada.

In 2015 the onetime owner and two former top executives of the shuttered Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago were convicted on charges they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks so doctors would refer patients on Medicare to the struggling West Side facility.