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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in . . .

• 1847, Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic

• 1892, William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association

• 1927, Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union

• 1933, Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster

• 1936, in California, the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic

• 1938, Hermann Goring, ym"sh, announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

• 1946, a branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows

• 1948, in Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II

• 1970, the Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident

• 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first spacecraft to be launched twice

• 1982, Lech Walesa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months

• 1990, Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web

• 1997, Ramzi Yousef, ym"sh, is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing

• 1998, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley filed a $433 million dollar lawsuit against the firearms industry, declaring that it had created a public nuisance by flooding the streets with weapons deliberately marketed to criminals. (A judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2000; an appeals court ruled in 2002 that the city of Chicago could proceed; but the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2004.)

• 1999, President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each other's products

• 2004, a jury in Redwood City, Calif., convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson, who maintains his innocence, was later sentenced to death.)

• 2009, the self-proclaimed organizer of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, will stand trial in New York, with the death penalty likely to be sought, the U.S. Defense Department announced

• 2010, the military government of Myanmar, formerly Burma, released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. The leader of the National League for Democracy had spent 15 of the past 21 years confined to her home.

• 2012, Syria's information minister, Omran Zoubi, said there is no power in the world that can topple President Bashar Assad. He said all efforts to replace Assad are futile

• 2014, President Barack Obama, in Mexico for a North American summit, urged Ukraine to avoid violence against peaceful protesters or face consequences; shortly after Obama's remarks, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's office said he and opposition leaders had agreed on a truce

• 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks across the French capital of Paris claimed the lives of 130 people and left 368 others injured.

• 2016, President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media executive Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist

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