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1825— The Erie Canal opens, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River in upstate New York.

1881—The infamous gunfight at the OK Corral takes place in Tombstone, Ariz.

1905 – Norway wins its independence from Sweden.

1944 – The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle in history, ends. The Americans emerge victorious.

1972—  Henry Kissinger announces that “peace is at hand” in Vietnam.

1984— Baby Fae, born with a severe heart defect, receives a baboon heart transplant. She survives  for 21 days.

1999 – Britain’s House of Lords, limits their own power, when they put an end to the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.

2001— As part of the war on terror,President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act.

2004—  Hamid Karzai  is elected President of Afghanistan.    

2005—The Chicago White Sox win their first World Series since 1917.