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1801 Washington D.C. is placed under congressional jurisdiction.

1827 The first open celebration of Mardi Gras in New Orleans begins.

1883 Oscar Hammerstein patented the first cigar-rolling machine.

1922 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.

1939 The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes.

1947 In Baltimore, the first closed-circuit broadcast of a surgical operation takes place at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Observers in four classrooms are able to see the procedure simultaneously.

1974 "People" Magazine is issued for the first time, with an initial run of one million copies.

1991 100 hours after beginning their land attack, U.S. troops liberate Kuwait.

1997 Divorce becomes legal in Ireland.

1998 Britain's House of Lords agreed to give a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference.

1999 Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new hot-air balloon endurance record when they stayed aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes. The two were in the process of trying to circumnavigate the Earth.

1999 Nigeria returned to civilian rule when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the country's first elected president since August of 1983.

2002 In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.

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