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1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
1789 Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1861 Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.
1938 Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts
1945 FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta - the division of Germany and Eurpoe
1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York)
1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army
1983 Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.
1987 Pianist Liberace died at age 67.
1991 Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose
1997 A civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
2004 The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.
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