1969James Earl Ray gets 99 yearsJames Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.
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1629
Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.
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1785
Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France.
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1848
Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
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1864
U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
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1876
The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
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1948
The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
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