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The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England.
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Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.
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Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.
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The Guerrero Decree reached Texas. Ramón Músquiz, the political chief of the Department of Texas, withheld its publication because it violated the colonization laws which guaranteed the settlers security for their persons and property.
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Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren.
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Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason.
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In El Paso, the first meeting between U.S. and Mexican presidents took place when William Howard Taft met with Porfirio Diaz.
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In San Antonio, the Pan American Round Table was organized.
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Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.
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George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, TX and began a shooting rampage in which he killed 23 people before taking his own life.