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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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Today in history

1587: Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

1910: The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.

1915: D.W. Griffith’s groundbreaking as well as controversial silent movie epic about the Civil War, “The Birth of a Nation,” premiered in Los Angeles.

1924: The first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, was put to death.

1978: The deliberations of the Senate were broadcast on radio for the first time as members opened debate on the Panama Canal treaties.

1989: 144 people were killed when an American-chartered Boeing 707 filled with Italian tourists slammed into a fog-covered mountain in the Azores.

2007: Model, actress and tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith died in Florida at age 39 of an accidental drug overdose.