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- 1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD.
- 1887 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Company.
- 1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
- 1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1938 - Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
- 1943 - Chaing Kai-shek took the oath of office as the president of China.
- 1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
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