On this day :
1532 Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa, 1776 Fort Washington Is Captured, 1901 Riker Torpedo Racer sets the world speed record for electric cars, 1863 Battle of Campbell Station Tennessee, 1945 German scientists brought to United States to work on rocket technology, 1957 Ed Gein kills final victim Bernice Worden, 1999 Construction begins on deadly bonfire, 1776 Hessians capture Fort Washington, 1907 Oklahoma enters the Union, 1988 Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan, 2001 First Harry Potter film opens, 1849 Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death, 1959 The Sound of Music premieres on Broadway, 1821 Becknell opens trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1973 Nixon supports construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline, 1957 Notre Dame ends Oklahoma record winning streak, 1961 Kennedy decides to increase military aid to Saigon, 1970 Ky defends South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia, 1971 US provides support to beleaguered Cambodians, 1914 New Fatherland League launched in Germany, 1941 Goebbels publishes his screed of hate,
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