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On this day in . . .

• 1360, the Treaty of Bretigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War

• 1648, the Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War

• 1795, the Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia

• 1861, the first telegram was transmitted across the United States from California Chief Justice Stephen Field to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express

• 1901, Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel

• 1911, Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

• 1929, "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange

• 1940, the 40-hour work week went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

• 1945, founding of the United Nations

• 1946, a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space

• 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam

• 1973, Yom Kippur War ends

• 1977, Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)

• 1986, Nezar Hindawi, a practitioner of that "religion of pece", is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials

• 2002, police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC

• 2003, Concorde makes its last commercial flight

• 2008, "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices

• 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama declared a national emergency related to the outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu, to aid local authorities in dealing with the pandemic. Medical officials put the American death toll at 530 with thousands hospitalized

• 2012, a 41-mile final stretch of Texas Highway 130, a toll road from Mustang Ridge, south of Austin, to Seguin, opened with the highest speed limit in the United States -- 85 mph

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