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dying, Booth looked at his hands and gasped, "Useless, useless.")
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• In 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Va., on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
• In 1785, American naturalist, hunter and artist John James Audubon was born in present-day Haiti.
• In 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker at a Georgia pencil factory, was strangled; Leo Frank, the factory superintendent, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death. (Frank's death sentence was commuted, but he was lynched by an anti-Semitic mob in 1915.)
• In 1923, Britain's Prince Albert, Duke of York (the future King George VI), married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• In 1933, Nazi Germany's infamous secret police, the Gestapo, was created.
• In 1937, German and Italian warplanes raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War; estimates of the number of people killed vary from the hundreds to the thousands.
• In 1945, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain (an-REE' fee-LEEP' pay-TAN'), the head of France's Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.
• In 1952, the destroyer-minesweeper USS Hobson sank in the central Atlantic after colliding with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp with the loss of 176 crew members.
• In 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar."
• In 1973, the Chicago Board Options Exchange held its first day of trading.
• In 1986, a major nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union).
• In 1993, Conan O'Brien was named to succeed David Letterman as host of NBC's "Late Night" program.
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• Ten years ago: A Soyuz rocket carrying American astronaut Edward Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (YOOR'-ee mal-ehn-CHEHN'-koh) blasted (Continued on page 36)
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