| 2003 | Jazz singer Diana Krall , 39, marries singer Elvis Costello, 49, in a private ceremony near London.
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| 2000 | Actor Werner Klemperer, who portrayed Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes, dies of cancer in New York City, at age 80.
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| 1999 | An aircraft maintenance company is convicted of improperly storing oxygen canisters that led to the 1996 ValuJet Flight 592 cargo hold fire and crash that killed 110 people.
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| 1993 | Movie and radio actor Don Ameche dies of cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona, at age 85.
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| 1988 | Singer Roy Orbison dies of a heart attack in Madison, Tennessee, at age 52.
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| 1985 | Magician-author Walter B. Gibson, creator of The Shadow radio series, dies at age 87.
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1973 | 
Gerald Ford is sworn in as US vice president, following the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
(photo credit: NARA)
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| 1969 | Four people die, including one knifed by a Hell's Angel biker, during a The Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California.
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| 1950 | Former child actress Shirley Temple marries San Francisco business executive Charles Black.
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1947 | 
US president Harry Truman dedicates Everglades National Park in Florida.
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| 1923 | Calvin Coolidge becomes the first US president to have his Congressional address broadcast over radio.
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| 1889 | Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, dies in New Orleans.
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| 1884 | The Washington Monument is completed.
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| 1790 | The US Congress moves from New York to Philadelphia.
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