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On this day in . . .

• 1752, Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin

• 1794, first session of United States Senate open to the public

• 1808, Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal

• 1809, Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

• 1812, Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a redistricting law favoring his party --- giving rise to the term "gerrymandering"

• 1814, Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union

• 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln departed Springfield, Ill., for Washington

• 1929, Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty

• 1937, a sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union

• 1938, BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot"

• 1939, Lockheed P-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes

• 1941, first Gold Record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

• 1943, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe

• 1945, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin ended their wartime conference at Yalta

• 1953, the Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel

• 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made the first bombing raids on North Vietnam

• 1971, 87 countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters

• 1973, Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place

• 1972, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what turned out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes

• 1979, Islamic revolution of Iran achieves victory under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

• 1986, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was released by the Soviet Union after nine years of captivity as part of an East-West prisoner exchange

• 1990, Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa

• 1993, British Prime Minister John Major said Queen Elizabeth II will pay income tax on her personal income as well as being subject to capital and inheritance levies

• 1999, a federal jury in New York found several gun makers responsible in three area shootings for letting guns fall into the hands of criminals and assessed damages; gun makers were found liable in six other instances, but no monetary damages were awarded. (However, the plaintiffs suffered a setback in 2001 when the New York Court of Appeals invalidated such claims.)

• 2005, the White House rejected North Korea's demand for bilateral talks over its nuclear weapons program

• 2006, U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett broke the solo flight record when he landed near Bournemouth, England, covering 24,997 miles after taking off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida four days earlier

• 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, marking the 28th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, vowed his country would not give up uranium enrichment. ALSO: U.S. officials in Baghdad presented evidence that they said indicated the Iranian government was supplying Iraqi Shiite militants with weapons

• 2008, the Defense Department charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. (Charges against one were later dropped.)

• 2010, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded not guilty to 24 counts in a revised corruption indictment

• 2011, Hosni Mubarak stepped down after nearly 30 years as president of Egypt, bowing to intense public pressure to resign after 18 days of massive, often violent widespread protests that spawned a reported death toll of more than 800 people. Mubarak, 82, ceded power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

• 2013, the Medal of Honor was awarded to former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha, who led an Alamo-like defense of an outpost against 300 Taliban attackers in Afghanistan

• 2014, President Barack Obama, during a joint White House news conference with French President Francois Hollande, vowed to come down like "a ton of bricks" on businesses that violated Iranian sanctions while nuclear negotiations were underway, and conceded "enormous frustration" with stalled Syrian peace talks

• 2016, the last four remaining armed occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon surrendered after a 41-day standoff that left one dead

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