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1456
Twenty-five years after her execution, Pope Calixtus III annulled the heresy charges brought against Joan of Arc.
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1797
William Blount of Tennessee became the first U.S. senator to be impeached.
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1846
Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey and declared California annexed to the United States.
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1946
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who directed the establishment of hospitals, orphanages, nurseries, and schools in the U.S. and Latin America, became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
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1954
An Elvis Presley recording was played on the radio for the first time.
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1981
President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor for the Supreme Court.
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2005
52 people were killed and hundreds injured in London when terrorists bombed subways and a bus.
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