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On this day in . . .

• 1797, 1000 meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump

• 1836, Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas

• 1765, the Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties

• 1895, in Paris, an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.

• 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt visited The Hermitage, the Nashville, Tenn., home of the late President Andrew Jackson. (Years later, Maxwell House claimed that Roosevelt had praised a cup of its coffee during this visit by saying it was "good to the last drop.")

• 1924, Toastmasters International is founded

• 1926, J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal. (Contrary to popular belief, appendicitis and not the punch was the likely cause of Houdini's death -- although the pain inflicted by the blows may have masked the pain of the appendicitis, preventing the performer from seeking treatment until nine days later)

• 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden

• 1934, in East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents

• 1949, Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb

• 1962, President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation

• 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor

• 1966, the Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go)

• 1968, Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times

• 1972, in Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime

• 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment --- a decision that precipitated the Iran hostage crisis

• 1981, the United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August

• 1983, two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons

• 1986, President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law

• 1999, Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity

• 2000, Arab leaders meeting in Egypt wrapped up a two-day summit on Israeli-Palestinian violence with a declaration that stopped short of an outright call for cutting ties with Israel

• 2002, bus driver Conrad Johnson was shot to death in Silver Spring, Md., in what would be the final attack linked by authorities to the Washington-area sniper attacks

• 2004, in a wrenching videotaped statement, kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, saying these "might be my last hours." (Hassan was apparently killed by her captors, practitioners of that "religion of peace", a month later.)

• 2006, a Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama

• 2008, Wall Street tumbled again as investors worried that the global economy was poised to weaken. The major indexes fell more than 4 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which finished with a loss of 514 points

• 2009, mortars fired by practitioners of that "religion of peace" landed in Somalia's airport as President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed boarded a plane, sparking battles that killed at least 24 people; the president was unhurt

• 2010, nearly 400,000 previously secret U.S. documents on the war in Iraq were posted on the WikiLeaks Internet website. Three months earlier, more than 75,000 undisclosed Afghan conflict documents appeared.

• 2011, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, heir to the Saudi Arabian throne, died after several years of medical problems. The prince, half-brother of King Abdullah and a longtime power in the Saudi government, was 81.

• 2012, the International Cycling Federation stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles amid a doping scandal.

• 2013, the United States defended drone strikes targeting al-Qaida operatives and others, rejecting reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International questioning the legality of attacks that the groups asserted had killed or wounded scores of civilians in Yemen and Pakistan

• 2017, U.S.-backed fighters in Syria captured the country's largest oil field from the Islamic State group, marking a major advance against the extremists. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scored a major victory in national elections that decisively returned his ruling coalition to power

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