| 2001: | | Hillary Rodham Clinton was sworn in as a U.S. senator from New York, having become the first first lady in U.S. history to win elective office. |
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| 1939: | | | Canadian professional ice hockey player Bobby Hull, the “Golden Jet,” was born. |
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| 1929: | | Italian motion-picture director Sergio Leone, known primarily for his popularization of the “spaghetti western,” was born. |
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| 1883: | | | Clement Attlee, British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51), was born. |
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| 1777: | | The Battle of Princeton (New Jersey) was fought during the American Revolution. |
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| 1543: | | Spanish soldier and explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the ‘‘discoverer” of California, died. |
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