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In 325, the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church, called by Emperor Constantine I, was held at Nicaea in Asia Minor. The council fixed the date of Easter and formulated the Nicene Creed.
In 1506, Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain.
In 1799, novelist Honore de Balzac was born at Tours, France.
In 1861, North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
In 1861, the capital of the Confederacy was moved from
Montgomery, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia.
In 1902, the United States ended its occupation of Cuba.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" on his historic solo flight to France.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland
to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
In 1939, regular transatlantic air service began as a Pan
American Airways plane, the "Yankee Clipper," took off from Port
Washington, New York, bound for Europe.
In 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" in
Montgomery, Alabama, prompting the federal government to send in
U.S. marshals to restore order.
In 1969, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia
Mountain, referred to as "Hamburger Hill" by the Americans,
following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
In 1970, some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York's
Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and
Cambodia.
In 1985, the F.B.I. arrested John A. Walker Jr., who was later
convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
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