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On this day in . . .

• 122, the building of Hadrian's Wall begins

• 533, General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa

• 1503, Michelangelo begins work on his statue of King David

• 1609, Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him --- the Hudson River

• 1788, The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.

• 1791, King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution

• 1814, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812. ALSO: Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner

• 1848, Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions

• 1862, American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam

• 1898, Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film

• 1899, Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident

• 1906, first fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe

• 1940, during World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace

• 1942, during World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces

• 1948, Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican Senator from Maine, is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate

• 1956, IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305

• 1970, the first New York City Marathon was held; Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38

• 1971, a four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives

• 1993, at the White House, the public unveiling of the disastrous Oslo "peace" Accords. The Israeli-Palestinian agreement was initiated by Norway. In its wake more Jews were murdered in the modrn-day Jewish state by practitioners of that "religion of peace" than at times of "war"

• 1996, the Dow closed at more than 5,838, a record high

• 2001, civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks

• 2010, violent crime in the United States declined in 2009 for the third straight year, down 5.3 percent, the FBI said in its annual report. Property crime was down 4.6 percent

• 2011, a Census Bureau report indicated the U.S. poverty rate climbed to 15.1 percent in 2010, the highest since 1993 and the third consecutive year it increased. The bureau said that translates to a record 46.2 million people in poverty

• 2012, turmoil blamed by the Obama administration on an amateurish U.S.-made movie disparaging Muhammad spread to Sanaa, Yemen, where hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Embassy. ALSO: New York City's Board of Health passed a ban on the sale of big sodas and other sugary drinks, limiting the size sold at restaurants, concession stands and other eateries to 16 ounces

• 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rolled out a plan aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers childcare during a speech in Aston, Pennsylvania

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