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- 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
- 1882 - The last bareknuckle fight for the heavyweight boxing championship took place in Mississippi City.
- 1913 - The Turks lost 5,000 men in a battle with the Bulgarian army in Gallipoli.
- 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace offered 5,000 copies of "Reader's Digest" magazine for the first time.
- 1962 - The U.S. government banned all Cuban imports and re-export of U.S. products to Cuba from other countries.
- 1985 - "Sports Illustrated" released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the largest regular edition in the magazine’s history at 218 pages.
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