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On this day in . . .

• 1606, the Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas

• 1790, the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, R.I.

• 1803, the Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans

• 1860, South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States

• 1864, Union Gen. William T. Sherman completed his Civil War "march to the sea" across the South and arrived in Savannah, Ga.

• 1963, the Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West Berliners, who were allowed one-day visits to relatives in the Eastern sector for the holidays

• 1984, the Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines

• 1987, history's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Dona Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

• 1988, the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna

• 1989, the United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega

• 1991, a Missouri court sentences the practitioners of that "religion of peace", Zein Isa and his wife Maria, to death for the "honor killing" of their daughter Palestina

• 1998, a Houston woman gave birth to seven more babies after delivering the first infant 12 days earlier. They were the only known set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States. The smallest baby died a week later

• 2002, US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader

• 2007, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days

• 2010, in the biggest anti-terrorist sweep in Britain in nearly two years, police arrested a dozen practitioners of that "religion of peace" accused of plotting a large-scale terror attack on targets inside the United Kingdom

• 2011, the Kepler, NASA's orbiting space observatory, discovered the first two Earth-size planets outside the solar system but both orbit too close to a sun-like star to have water on the surface.

• 2012, the State Department acknowledged major weaknesses in security and errors in judgment exposed in a scathing independent report on the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya

• 2014, two New York police officers were killed execution-style while sitting in their patrol vehicle. The shooter had posted threatening messages on social media against police and in support two blacks who died in police custody

• 2016, President Barack Obama designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing

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