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1862 - Stonewall Jackson takes Harper's Ferry.

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1947 - First four-engine jet-propelled fighter-plane tested, Columbus, Ohio.

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1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph.

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1958 - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark, New Jersey).

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1959 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit.

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1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph.

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1963 - Four children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

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1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, DC.

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1981 - US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor for Supreme Court.

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1982 - First issue of USA Today published by Gannett Company Inc.

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