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1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1878 Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph.
1881 Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order giving the military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.
1945, during World War II, some 30,000 United States Marines landed on the Western Pacific island of Iwo Jima
1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
2004 Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in connection with the energy trader's collapse. (He was later convicted and sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.)
2008 An ailing Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency after nearly a half-century in power; his brother Raul was later named to succeed him. .
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