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• On this date:
• In 1663, King Charles II of England granted a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
• In 1776, Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.
• In 1853, an expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.
• In 1889, The Wall Street Journal was first published.
• In 1907, Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater.
• In 1911, cowgirl "Two-Gun Nan" Aspinwall became the first woman to make a solo trip by horse across the United States, arriving in New York 10 months after departing San Francisco.
• In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles (vehr-SY') Peace Conference in France.
• In 1947, demolition work began in New York City to make way for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
• In 1950, President Harry S. Truman named Gen. Douglas MacArthur commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. (Truman ended up sacking MacArthur for insubordination nine months later.)
• In 1962, just after midnight local time, Alitalia Flight 771, a DC-8, crashed as it was approaching Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing all 94 people on board.
• In 1972, actress Jane Fonda began a two-week visit to Hanoi, where she de
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