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Chicago Tribune - September 9, 2004
In 1850 California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state.
In 1893 Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a girl, Esther, the first child born to a first lady in the White House.
In 1942 a Japanese floatplane dropped two incendiary bombs on a forest in Oregon in WW II.
In 1943 Allied forces landed in Italy, at Salerno and Taranto.
In 1956 Elvis Presley first appeared on national TV, on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
In 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
In 1965 Hurricane Betsy hit Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas; 75 people died.
In 1971 more than 1,100 convicts rioted at Attica state prison near Buffalo, setting fires and taking 32 guards and civilian employees hostage; 43 people were killed in the siege.
In 1985 parents in the New York borough of Queens kept 18,000 children home from school after a child with AIDS was allowed to attend classes.
In 1993 the remains of former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos were buried in his homeland, four years after his death in exile in Hawaii.
In 1995 Amtrak's Broadway Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City made its final run.
In 1997 actor Burgess Meredith, 89, died in Malibu, Calif.
In 1999 Hall of Fame pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter, 53, died in Hertford, N.C.
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