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In the year 1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.

In the year 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.

In the year 1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.

In the year 1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.

In the year 1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.

In the year 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.

In the year 1921 – The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.

In the year 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

In the year 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

In the year 1968 – Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity.

In the year 1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.

In the year 1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

In the year 1993 – NASA's Galileo probe fly by the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discovers a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and names it Dactyl.

In the year 2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.

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