On this day :
1614 Pocahontas marries John Rolfe, 1774 Benjamin Franklin publishes An Open Letter to Lord North, 2000 NASCAR legend Lee Petty dies, 1862 Siege of Yorktown begins, 1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to death for spying, 1994 Kurt Cobain commits suicide, 1936 Tornadoes devastate Tupelo and Gainesville, 1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to die, 1955 Winston Churchill resigns, 1992 Abortion rights advocates march on Washington, 2008 Charlton Heston dies, 1859 Darwin sends first three chapters of The Origin of Species to his publisher, 1968 James Brown calms Boston following the King assassination, 1976 Howard Hughes dies, 1792 Washington exercises first presidential veto, 1984 AbdulJabbar breaks points record, 1969 Antiwar demonstrations held across United States, 1972 North Vietnamese launch second front of Nguyen Hue Offensive, 1918 First stage of German spring offensive ends, 1945 Tito signs friendship treaty with Soviet Union,
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