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• In 1765, Frederick County, Md. became the first colonial entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.
• In 1804, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce (puhrs), was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
• In 1887, actor Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt in London.
• In 1903, Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in "Rigoletto."
• In 1910, American-born physician Hawley Harvey Crippen was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for murdering his wife, Cora. (Crippen's mistress, Ethel Le Neve, was acquitted in a separate trial of being an accessory.)
• In 1936, Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce (loos), was first published.
• In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin (MAH'-kihn) atolls from the Japanese.
• In 1959, the musical "Fiorello!," starring Tom Bosley as legendary New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, opened on Broadway.
• In 1971, the People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
• In 1980, some 2,600 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
• In 1992, in Germany, three Turks were killed when rightist militants firebombed their homes in Moelln (muln); in Berlin, hundreds of demonstrators protested in solidarity with foreigners. Country music star Roy Acuff died in Nashville at age 89.
• In 1996, a commandeered Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the water off the Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board, including all three hijackers.
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• Ten years ago: President George W. Bush visited Vilnius, Lithuania, and Bucharest, Romania, where he vowed to defend hard-won freedoms behind the former Iron Curtain. Miss World organizers moved the beauty pageant from Abuja (ah-BOO'-juh), Nigeria, to London after some 100 people died in violence triggered by a Nigerian newspaper's suggestion that the Islamic prophet Muhammad would have liked the event.
• Five years ago: Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations grudgingly agreed to attend an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, despite failing to get any guarantee of Israeli concessions. Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud (ee-MEEL'

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