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On this day in . . .

• 1187, Saladin, a Kurdish Muslim who became the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule

• 1780, George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. Also: British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, N.Y.

• 1835, the first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River

• 1851, the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass, built to prove the belief that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they touch, is demonstrated but proves to be a fake

• 1919, President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed

• 1924, the Geneva Protocol -- Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare -- is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations

• 1938, the Tiberias massacre: Practitioners of that "religion of peace" murder 20 Jews. The Jewish state of Israel was founded in 1948

• 1941, during World War II, German armies began an all-out drive against Moscow

• 1944, Nazi troops, ym"sh, crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed

• 1950, the comic strip "Peanuts," created by Charles M. Schulz, was first published in nine newspapers

• 1958, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence

• 1959, the anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television

• 1968, a peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre

• 1975, President Ford welcomed Japan's Emperor Hirohito to the United States

• 1998, the House released 4,600 pages of evidence that meticulously detailed President Clinton's efforts to contain the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it erupted

• 2002, a resident of Silver Spring, Md., was shot and killed by a sniper in a store parking lot in Wheaton; the next day, five people in the Washington, D.C., area were shot dead, setting off a frantic manhunt. (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were later arrested for 10 killings and three woundings; Muhammad has been sentenced to death, Malvo to life in prison.)

• 2003, the House voted 281-142 to prohibit doctors from carrying out partial birth abortions

• 2005, NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City

• 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of the girls and wounding five others before committing suicide

• 2008, more than a year after millionaire adventure Steve Fossett vanished on a solo flight over California's rugged Sierra Nevada, searchers found the wreckage of his plane but no body inside. (Fossett's remains were discovered in late October 2008.)

• 2012, Pennsylvanians can vote in November without having to show a photo identification card, a judge ruled in a challenge to the state's controversial voter ID law

• 2014, President Barack Obama acknowledged his pivotal role in the midterm political campaign, arguing in a speech at Northwestern University that the November congressional elections were a referendum on his economic policies and blaming Republicans for blocking his efforts to boost wages and create more jobs

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