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1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama
1910 The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.
1911 U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras
1915 D.W. Griffith's silent movie epic about the Civil War, "The Birth of a Nation," premiered in Los Angeles.
1926 Walt Disney Studios forms
1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1968 Three college students died in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, S.C., during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley.
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