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1893 - US Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

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1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide (USA) panic. About a million radio listeners believe that a real Martian invasion is underway.

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1942 - R.E. Griffith opens the Hotel Last Frontier on the Los Angeles Highway, Nevada. This is Las Vegas' first themed resort, with an Old West theme.

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1945 - US government announces end of shoe rationing.

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1948 - 20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania, USA.

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1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize.

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1954 - Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments.

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1972 - Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago, Illinois.

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1975 - New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead".

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1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.

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