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1862 - Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns.

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1938 - US Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs trade pacts with Great Britain and Canada.

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1962 - US President John Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington DC.

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1973 - US President Richard Nixon tells Associated Press "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook".

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1980 - The former New Orleans Mint building re-opens as the Louisiana State Museum.

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1987 - In the Gulf of Alaska, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs.

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1989 - Buena Vista releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film The Little Mermaid to theaters. It cost over US$23 million to make.

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1993 - US Congress votes for NAFTA.

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2006 - The James Bond film Casino Royale is released to theaters in the USA, with Daniel Craig as the new lead actor.

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2006 - Sony releases the PlayStation 3 video game system in the USA.

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