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1864 - Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia (Rosser's Raid).

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1874 - US Congress passes an act allowing the Bureau of the Mint to produce coinage for foreign governments.

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1900 - The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, also known as the American League, is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis.

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1953 - First movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres.

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1955 - John William Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962).

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1958 - Murderer Charles Starkweather captured by police in Wyoming, USA.

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1959 - Buena Vista premieres Disney's animated feature film Sleeping Beauty at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles, California. The film is based on Charles Perrault's version of the story of Sleeping Beauty.

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1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit.

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1966 - Snow storm in north-east US kills 165.

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1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC.

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