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- 1908 - In England, the first Boy Scout troop was organized by Robert Baden-Powell.
- 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.
- 1924 - The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad. The name has since been changed back to St. Petersburg.
- 1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale in Richmond, VA.
- 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws that denied welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year.
- 1989 - Ted Bundy, the confessed serial killer, was put to death in Florida's electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
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