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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1655, John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States
• 1817, the New York Stock Exchange is founded
• 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese
• 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and inflicted heavy damage on the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va.
• 1913, the Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes in the United States
• 1917, the U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. ALSO: Russia's "February Revolution" (so called because of the Old Style calendar being used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in Petrograd
• 1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in Germany's industrial heartland
• 1936, Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race
• 1957, Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis
• 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam, about 3,500 Marines sent to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang
• 1971, Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali by decision in what was billed as "The Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in New York
• 1997, President Clinton, in keeping with his push for private businesses and churches to hire off welfare rolls, ordered federal agencies to do the same
• 1983, President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire" before the British House of Commons
• 1990, Colombia's M-19 leftist guerrilla group surrendered its arms, ending 16 years of insurrection
• 1999, the Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. ALSO: T the U.S. Energy Department fired a Chinese-born computer scientist from the Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory in the theft of U.S. nuclear secrets
• 2000, President Bill Clinton submitted to Congress legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations with China. (The U.S. and China signed a trade pact in Nov. 2000.)
• 2001, the Republican-controlled House voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, handing President George W. Bush a major victory only 48 days into his term
• 2002, Kmart Corp. announced the closing of 284 stores and elimination of 22,000 jobs. ALSO: The U.S. Senate passed a bill cutting taxes and extending unemployment benefits
• 2003, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip, killing a top Hamas leader and three bodyguards
• 2004, a new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council
• 2006, Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" if the U.S. tried to use the U.N. Security Council to punish Tehran for its suspect nuclear program. ALSO: three Alabama college students reportedly looking for cheap thrills were arrested on charges they set fire to nine rural Baptist churches
• 2007, the British House of Commons approved a measure requiring the House of Lords to be elected by the people rather than appointed
• 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed legislation that would have outlawed severe interrogation methods such as waterboarding used by the CIA. Bush said the proposal would eliminate "one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror."
• 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama said the United States may try reconciliation with Taliban moderates in an effort to turn around the Afghan war
• 2011, as fighting in Libya between insurgents and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi continued and casualties escalated, rebel leaders gave Gadhafi 72 hours to resign or be hunted as a criminal
• 2012, Syria's deputy oil minister (Abdo Husameddine), looking tense, announced in a video that he had defected from President Bashar Assad's regime
• 2013, former Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem and ex-Defense Minister Oscar Camilion were convicted of smuggling weapons to Croatia and Ecuador
• 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 carrying 239 people vanished over the Indian Ocean en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. A massive search found no sign of the plane and a government statement months later said all aboard -- 227 passengers and 12 crew members -- "are presumed to have lost their lives."
• 2016, Democrat Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his longshot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan's primary while Hillary Clinton breezed to an easy victory in Mississippi; Republican Donald Trump swept to victory in Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii, while Ted Cruz carried Idaho
Joseph Curl: Americans, domestically, live in truly terrifying times --- and that's not hyperbole
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Least Competent Artists
Mona Charen: O.J. and Us
John Stossel: Killing Big Bird
Jonah Goldberg: Twitter is proving to be Trump's Achilles' heel
Paul Greenberg: Hear America talking
L. Brent Bozell III: The Media's Anonymous-Sources Hypocrisy
Michelle Malkin: A Day Without American Tech Workers
• Gold Star father Khan's claim that the US is restricting his travel may be unraveling
• The Statue of Liberty went dark overnight
Byron York: The information vacuum inside the Trump Russia controversy
Craig Timberg, Ellen Nakashima & Elizabeth Dwoskin: Why the CIA is using your TVs, smartphones and cars for spying
Amber Phillips: The three GOP factions that could doom Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill
Bob Tyrrell: Those mercurial Dems
Hugh Hewitt: Dems demanding a special prosecutor should be careful what they wish for
Ramesh Ponnuru: Trump fails to take his wiretap story seriously
Declassified by Eli Lake: What Trump tweeted about Obama and wiretaps is almost certainly false. But it's not the end of the story
Dick Morris: I've got the solution to replace Obamacare
Walter Williams: College Campus Disgrace
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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