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Today in history

1635: Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1701: Yale University was chartered.

1776: A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.

1888: The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.

1930: Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif.

1936: The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1958: Pope Pius XII died. (He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

1967: Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.

1974: Czech-born German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, died in Frankfurt, West Germany; at his request, he was buried in Jerusalem.

1975: Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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