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• In 1910, British suffragists clashed with police outside Parliament on what became known as "Black Friday."
• In 1928, Walt Disney's first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, "Steamboat

Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York.
• In 1936, Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco.
• In 1958, the cargo freighter SS Carl D. Bradley sank during a storm in Lake Michigan, claiming 33 of the 35 lives on board.
• In 1962, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr died in his native Denmark at age 77.
• In 1966, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays outside of Lent.
• In 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others were killed in Jones

town, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings were followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members.
• In 1987, the congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides. A fire at London King's Cross railway station claimed 31 lives.
• In 1991, Shiite (SHEE'-eyet) Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland, the American dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut.
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Ten years ago: U.N. arms inspectors returned to Iraq after a four-year hiatus, calling on Saddam Hussein's government to cooperate with their search for weapons of mass destruction. Actor James Coburn died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 74.
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Five years ago: Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's (pur-VEHZ' moo-SHAH'-ruhvz) government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule, a day after a visit by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte (neh-groh-PAHN'-tee). A methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, killing 101 miners. Chris Daughtry's band won favorite pop-rock album for "Daughtry," as well as breakthrough artist and adult contemporary artist at the American Music Awards. MTV Arabia, an Arab version of the pop-culture channel, began broadcasting.
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One year ago: In an incident that prompted national outrage, campus police at the University of California, Davis used pepper-spray on nonviolent Occupy protesters (the school later agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the demonstrators). Self-help author James Arthur Ray was sentenced to two years in prison

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