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On this day in . . .

• 1847, Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States

• 1848, during the Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt, in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police

• 1858, United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty, the treaty followed the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa, which granted coaling right for U.S. ships and allowed for a U.S. Consul in Shimoda. Although Commodore Matthew Perry secured fuel for U.S. ships and protection, he left the important matter of trading rights to Townsend Harris, another U.S. envoy who negotiated with the Tokugawa Shogunate; the treaty is therefore often referred to as the Harris Treaty. It took two years to break down Japanese resistance, but with the threat of looming British demands for similar privileges, the Tokugawa government eventually capitulate

• 1864, during the Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.

• 1899, the First Hague Convention is signed

• 1914, transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco

• 1921, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party

• 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency was established

• 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA

• 1967, an accidental rocket launch aboard the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen

• 1975, President Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the victims

• 1976, in New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks

• 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)

• 1985, the space shuttle Challenger began an eight-day mission that got off to a shaky start --- the spacecraft achieved a safe orbit even though one of its main engines shut down prematurely after lift-off

• 1995, President Clinton and Republicans marked the 30th anniversary of Medicare by accusing one another of putting the program's future at risk

• 1998, President Clinton reached an agreement with Kenneth Starr to provide grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television in the Monica Lewinsky case

• 1999, a day trader, apparently upset over stock losses, opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; authorities say Mark O. Barton also killed his wife and two children

• 2003, Boston's Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a game and connected for three homers in a 14-7 win at Texas

• 2004, Sen. John Kerry accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Boston with a military salute and the declaration: "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty."

• 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a 10-year Internet search partnership, taking on the overwhelming dominance of Google in the online advertising market

• 2010, Army Spc. Bradley Manning was flown from a detention facility in Kuwait to the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., to await trial on charges of giving military secrets to WikiLeaks. ALSO: A House panel charged New York Democrat Charles Rangel with 13 counts of ethical misdeeds (he was later censured by the full House)

• 2012, standing on Israeli soil, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared Jerusalem to be the capital of the Jewish state and said the United States had "a solemn duty and a moral imperative" to block Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability. He said the United States needed to take Iran at its word when it called for the extermination of Israel

• 2014, spurred to action by the downing of a Malaysian airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions against Russia, including an arms embargo and restrictions on state-owned banks ALSO: President Barack Obama swiftly followed with an expansion of U.S. penalties targeting key sectors of the Russian economy. AND: A 93-year-old water main burst under Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and released 20 million gallons of water that flooded the thoroughfare and parts of the UCLA campus

• 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that America's armed forces stood ready to confront Iran, but that a successful implementation of the nuclear agreement with Tehran was preferable to a military strike. ALSO: Afghan authorities announced they were certain that the Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had died in a Pakistani hospital in 2013

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