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| 1620 | Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay - the first child born of English parents in present-day New England. |
| 1789 | New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. |
| 1889 | Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Mo. |
| 1910 | Revolution broke out in Mexico. |
| 1925 | Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass. |
| 1947 | Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey in London. |
| 1966 | The musical "Cabaret," with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway. |
| 1969 | The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out. |
| 1975 | Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule. |
| 1977 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament. |
| 1995 | Princess Diana admitted during an interview broadcast on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles. |
| 1996 | House Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be speaker for a second term. |
| 2000 | Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resigned, ending a 10-year reign. |
| 2001 | Federal health officials approved sale of the world's first contraceptive patch, Ortho-Evra. |
| 2003 | Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquited.) |
| 2006 | Director Robert Altman died at age 81. |
Article of the day
Nuremberg trials begin
Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II.
The Nuremberg Trials were conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war, to crimes against humanity. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British member, presided over the proceedings, which lasted 10 months and consisted of 216 court sessions.
On October 1, 1946, 12 architects of Nazi policy were sentenced to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 years to life, and three were acquitted. Of the original 24 defendants, one, Robert Ley, committed suicide while in prison, and another, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, was deemed mentally and physically incompetent to stand trial. Among those condemned to death by hanging were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi minister of foreign affairs; Hermann Goering, leader of the Gestapo and the Luftwaffe; Alfred Jodl, head of the German armed forces staff; and Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior.
On October 16, 10 of the architects of Nazi policy were hanged. Goering, who at sentencing was called the "leading war aggressor and creator of the oppressive program against the Jews," committed suicide by poison on the eve of his scheduled execution. Nazi Party leader Martin Bormann was condemned to death in absentia (but is now believed to have died in May 1945). Trials of lesser German and Axis war criminals continued in Germany into the 1950s and resulted in the conviction of 5,025 other defendants and the execution of 806.
Today Birthdays
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 AP Photo/Ron Edmonds Vice President-elect Joe Biden turns 66 years old today.
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