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Today in history
1850: In a 3-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place, between New York and London.
1936: Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles.
1945: During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany.
1965: A march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse.
1975: The Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1981: Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
1998: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the U.S. wouldn’t tolerate any more violence in Kosovo, which she blamed on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
2007: Sex offender John Evander Couey was found guilty in Miami of kidnapping, raping and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was buried alive.