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1636
Harvard College was founded.

1886
The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

1919
Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

1922
Fascism came to Italy as Benito Mussolini took control of the government.

1940
Italy invaded Greece during World War II.

1962
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

1976
Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions.

2002
American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan.

2005
Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, resigned after he was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation.

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