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| 1559 |
England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. |
| 1844 |
The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana. |
| 1947 |
The mutilated remains of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the “Black Dahlia,” were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved. |
| 1965 |
The Who’s first single, “I Can’t Explain,” was released. |
| 1967 |
The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first Super Bowl. |
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| 1973 |
President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations. |
| 1978 |
Serial killer Ted Bundy murdered two students in a sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee. |
| 1992 |
The Yugoslav federation effectively collapsed as the European Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia. |
| 2001 |
Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia, made its debut. |
| 2004 |
The NASA Spirit rover rolled onto the surface of Mars. |
| 2005 |
A military court sentenced Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr. to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually mistreating Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison. |
| 2009 |
US Airways Capt Chelsey Sullenberger guided a jetliner disabled by a bird strike just after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to a safe landing in the Hudson River. All 155 people aboard survived. |
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