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On this day in . . .

• 1692, a doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials

• 1837, Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes

• 1904, the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict over control of Manchuria and Korea, began as Japanese forces attacked Port Arthur

• 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated

• 1915, D.W. Griffith's "Birth Of A Nation," a landmark in the history of cinema and the first American full-length motion picture, opened in Los Angeles and was immediately a smash hit though many found its treatment of race offensive

• 1922, President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House

• 1924, the first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, was put to death

• 1940, Nazis, ym"sh, shot every 10th person in two Polish villages near Warsaw in reprisal for the deaths of two German soldiers

• 1960, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". ALSO: First plaques installed on Hollywood Walk of Fame. The first people honored were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick Ernest Torrence and Joanne Woodward

• 1963, travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration

• 1971, the NASDAQ, the world's first electronic stock exchange, debuts

• 1974, after 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab return to Earth

• 1978, the deliberations of the Senate were broadcast on radio for the first time as members opened debate on the Panama Canal treaties

• 1993, General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day

• 1996, the massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place. It was billed as the "largest collaborative Internet event ever", involving thousands of photographers from all over the world, including 150 of the world's top photojournalists

• 2000, Internet vandals continued an unprecedented campaign of electronic assaults against the biggest names in cyberspace, disrupting access for consumers to popular Web sites including eBay, Amazon.com and CNN.com

• 2001, President George W. Bush sent his proposed $1.6 trillion ten-year tax cut plan to Congress. (Bush signed the tax cut package into law on June 7, 2001)

• 2002, the Taliban's foreign minister (Mullah Abdul Wakil Muttawakil) turned himself in to authorities in Afghanistan

• 2003, tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in support of 9,000 oil workers fired for leading a two-month strike against President Hugo Chavez

• 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced a cease-fire at a summit in Egypt

• 2006, President Bush condemned deadly rioting by practitioners of that "religion of peace" which was sparked by cartoons of Muhammad, as he urged foreign leaders to halt the spreading violence. AND: Police opened fire on an Afghanistan mob protesting a series of published cartoons that depict the Muhammad, killing four protesters and raising the death toll there to 11

• 2008, a man at odds with city officials went on a shooting rampage at a Kirkwood, Mo., City Council meeting, killing five people, police said. Officers killed the suspect, identified as Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton, an independent contractor.

• 2012, a deep weather freeze, mostly in Eastern Europe, was blamed for 300 deaths, including at least 135 in Ukraine over two weeks

• 2013, Jeffrey Delisle, a junior Canadian naval officer who pleaded guilty to selling military secrets to Russia, was sentenced to 20 years in prison

• 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government would soon treat people in "alternative-lifestyle" relationships the same as heterosexual couples in court cases, such as jointly filing for bankruptcy and declining to testify against a spouse

• 2018, the federal government stumbled into a shutdown that would end by morning, its second in less than a month

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