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1804
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was tried for political bias.
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1900
Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.
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1966
Barbados became independent of Great Britain.
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1974
The fossilized remains of a female human ancestor named Lucy (after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) were found in Ethiopia.
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1993
The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases, is signed.
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1995
President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland.
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2004
Ken Jennings ended his 74-game winning spree on the game show, Jeopardy!
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