On this day in history
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0452: Attila the Hun invades Italy.
0632: Muhammad, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies.
0793: The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England.
1861: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
1866: Cabinet suspends writ of Habeas Corpus for one year; to capture persons suspected of complicity in Fenian Raids.
1879: Toronto's first telephone book is published.
1900: Prince Edward Island passes Canada's first prohibition law.
1904: U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.
1908: King Edward VII of England visits Czar Nicholas II of Russia in an effort to improve relations between the two countries.
1953: The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.
1966: Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.
1968: James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
1992: Canadian Space Agency chooses four new astronauts from 5,300 applicants; Chris Hadfield, aviation systems specialist, Air Force Major, age 32; Julie Payette, computer engineer with Bell-Northern Research; Montréal native, age 28; Robert Stewart, geophysicist with University of Calgary; Calgary native, age 37; Dave Williams, Toronto physician, age 37.
1995: U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
