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Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1622 - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain

1765 - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists

1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington

1903 - Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought

1941 - Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II

1944 - American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin

1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich

1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

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