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1978 - US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill.
1981 - Elizabeth Jones is sworn in as 11th Chief Engraver at the US Mint.
1981 - Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
1993 - The Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas is imploded.
1997 - Stock markets around the world crash because of a global economic crisis scare. The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18 percent, to 7,161.15. The points loss exceeds the loss from Black Monday. Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading.
2005 - Harriet Miers withdraws her name from consideration for the Supreme Court of the United States.
2006 - Last Ford Taurus rolls off Atlanta assembly line.
2006 - At the Busch Stadium, the Saint Louis Cardinals beat the heavily favored Detroit Tigers, 4-2, in Game 5 of the Fall Classic to win the 2006 World Series of baseball. The Cardinals, who lost ten of their last 14 regular season games, won less games than any World Series champion in baseball history.