2003 – Californians voted to recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates.

1985 PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro

1967 – Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.

1963 John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty

1950 U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel

1919 – KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name, was founded.

1849 – American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College after being found four days earlier on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.

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