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2006
Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2004
SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2001
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2000
Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
1982
John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1973
In handing down the decision in ''Miller v. California'' 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
1964
Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1957
Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1952
The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1948
Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
1942
World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
1940
The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.
1919
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1915
The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in ''Guinn v. United States'' 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1898
The United States captures Guam from Spain.
1895
The Kiel Canal is officially opened.
1877
The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1864
New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1854
The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
1826
Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1824
Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1813
Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1798
Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1788
New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1768
James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
1749
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1734
In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city.
1621
Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1582
The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
1307
Külüg Khan enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
524
Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.