1775 Patrick Henry uttered his famous words "Give me liberty or give me death"
1792 First performance of Haydn Symphony No. 94
1808 Lewis & Clark, having reached the Pacific Coast, started their return trip
1919 B Mussolini founded his facist government in Milano
1933 The Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, effectively granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers
1965 America's first two-person space flight, Gemini 3, took off from Cape Canaveral with astronauts Grissom & Young aboard
1983 President Reagan first proposed "Star Wars" missile interception program
2001 Russia's orbiting MIR station ended it's 15-year odyssey
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