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'morning Tala.
*coffeee*
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1496 Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629 England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament.
1785 Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1848 The Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
1864 Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
1876 The first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, ''Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.''
1948 The body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.
1949 Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as ''Axis Sally,'' was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason.
1965 Neil Simon's play ''The Odd Couple'' opened on Broadway.
1969 James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1980 ''Scarsdale Diet'' author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y.
1988 Pop singer Andy Gibb died at age 30 of heart inflammation.
1993 Authorities announced the arrest of Nidal Ayyad, a second suspect in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.
1993 Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.
2002 Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City, hours after 11 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the street from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence in Jerusalem.
2004 Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced in Chesapeake, Va., to life in prison.
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