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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1682, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded
• 1787, a New York newspaper published the first of 77 essays explaining the new Constitution and urging its ratification, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay and later combined as "The Federalist Papers."
• 1795, the United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1810, the United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida
• 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated
• 1870, Marshal Francois Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War
• 1873, a De Kalb, Illinois, farmer named Joseph Glidden submits an application to the U.S. Patent Office for his clever new design for a fencing wire with sharp barbs, an invention that will forever change the face of the American West
• 1900, after four years of work, the first section of the New York subway was opened
• 1901, the first known use of a "getaway car" occurred in Paris when thieves drove off after holding up a shop
• 1904, the first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world
• 1918, in Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II accepted the resignation of General Erich Ludendorff after the failure of his offensive on the Western Front
• 1922, the Italian government resigned under increasing pressure from the fascist movement of Benito Mussolini
• 1936, Mrs. Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne
• 1938, Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: "nylon"
• 1946, the travel show "Geographically Speaking," sponsored by Bristol-Myers, became the first television program with a commercial sponsor
• 1962, complicated and tension-filled negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union finally result in a plan to end the two-week-old Cuban Missile Crisis. A frightening period in which nuclear holocaust seemed imminent began to come to an end
• 1964, Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing"
• 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord
• 1980, the first total Internet crash took place in its earliest days when the U.S Defense Department's prototype Internet -- ARPANET -- caught a virus
• 1987, a referendum in South Korea approved constitutional reforms, including direct elections to the presidency
• 1988, Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure
• 1994, the U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history
• 1995, a sniper killed one soldier and wounded 18 others at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Paratrooper William J. Kreutzer was convicted in the shootings, and condemned to death; however, the sentence was later commuted to life in prison.)
• 1996, a U.S. envoy Dennis Ross shuttled between Jerusalem and the Palestinians' Gaza Strip headquarters, trying to finesse a deal to start an overdue Israeli withdrawal from Judaism's second holiest city, Hebron
• 1997, stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activates its "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early
• 2001, in Washington, the search for deadly anthrax widened to thousands of businesses and 30 mail distribution centers
• 2004, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years
• 2005, White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court after three weeks of brutal criticism from fellow GOPers
• 2006, President George W. Bush said the United States did not torture prisoners, trying to calm a controversy created when Vice President Dick Cheney embraced the suggestion that a "dunk in water" might be useful to get terrorist suspects to talk
• 2009, the Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles after becoming distracted while working on laptop computers
• 2016, a jury in Portland, Ore., delivered an extraordinary blow to the government in a long-running battle over the use of public lands when it acquitted all seven defendants, including group leader Ammon Bundy, who were involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in 2014. ALSO: Law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear evicted protesters from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, dramatically escalating a monthslong dispute over Native American rights and the project's environmental impact
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