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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.
- 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace offered 5,000 copies of "Reader's Digest" magazine for the first time.
- 1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.
- 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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