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On this day in . . .

• 1446, the Korean alphabet, created under the aegis of King Sejong, was first published

• 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut -- later Yale University -- was chartered

• 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco

• 1837, a meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute

• 1855, the sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer of New York

• 1872, the first mail order catalog was delivered. It was one-page and published by Aaron Montgomery Ward, whose chain department store bore his name. Today, it is an online retailer with no physical stores

• 1888, the Washington Monument officially opens to the general public

• 1911, an accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire

• 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif.

• 1967, Latin American terrorist leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia

• 1973, Priscilla Presley, was divorced from Elvis -- in Santa Monica, CA. -- She received $1.5 million in cash, $4,200 per month in alimony, half interest in a $750,000 home plus about 5 percent interest in two of Elvis' publishing companies

• 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• 2002, Dean Harold Meyers was shot to death at a gas station near Manassas, Va., in the latest sniper shooting in the Washington, D.C., area

• 2006, North Korea faced a barrage of condemnation and calls for retaliation after it announced that it had set off a small atomic weapon underground; President Bush said, "The international community will respond."

• 2008, calm gave way to fear in financial markets, turning a relatively steady day into a rout that pushed the Dow Jones industrials below 9,000 -- to 8,579.19 -- for the first time in five years

• 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

• 2012, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report said Transportation Security Administration screeners routinely failed to check bags for explosives at Honolulu International Airport. It said inspectors found "a lack of effective and consistent supervision of TSA screeners by their managers, as well as inconsistent adherence to operating procedures." ALSO: The producers of "Sesame Street" asked President Barack Obama's re-election campaign to take down an ad featuring Big Bird, saying the Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan nonprofit and does not participate in political campaigns. The ad mocked Mitt Romney's vow to end federal funding for public broadcasting. AND: Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison following his July conviction on 45 counts of abuse of boys

• 2016, during debate in St. Louis, Hillary Clinton declared that Donald Trump's vulgar comments about women revealed "exactly who he is" and proved his unsuitability to be president; firing back, Trump accused Clinton of attacking women involved in Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs and promised she would "be in jail" if he were president

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(WONDERFUL) Mark Steyn: Beautiful Dreamer

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Argus Hamilton's News In Zingers!

L. Brent Bozell III: A Rerun of the 'Da Vinci' Kook

Charles Hurt: Columbus deserves his day

Robert Barnes: Supreme Court ponders if lawyer can concede client's guilt when accused claims innocence

Laura Hollis: A Modest Proposal to End Child Abuse

Suzanne Fields: A Bunny, a Burka, Sex and Revolution

Ed Rogers: Steady Tillerson is here to stay

Marc A. Thiessen: A gun-control measure that all Republicans should rally behind

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(EXCELLENT) Theodore Dalrymple: The Unanswerable

Matea Gold: Trump supporters eager to 'drain the swamp' help fill Republican Party coffers

Jonah Goldberg: Politicians and guns: Follow the votes, not the money

Stephen L. Carter: A little bit of hypocrisy goes a long way

• A father was cleared of killing his toddler --- after his 7-year-old son confessed

• Police guard statue of Christopher Columbus in New York around the clock

• He helped a kidnapped girl return home. Now he's giving her his $7,000 reward

Debra J. Saunders: A Moment of Unity

Ellen Nakashima: Bipartisan group of lawmakers seek to impose new limit on NSA spy power

Hugh Hewitt: Trump's baked-in support

George Will: America's most accomplishing politician?

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