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• 1862 – A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
• 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
• 1972 – Apollo 16 launches towards the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 2007 – The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, the Virginia Tech massacre (memorial ceremony pictured), occurs. A gunman shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.

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