AP Highlight in History: On Oct. 10, 2002, the House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. (The Senate followed suit the next day.)
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1813
Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy.
1845
The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.
1886
The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
1911
Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
1935
George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway.
1943
Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, Del., restaurant.
1964
The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
1970
Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule.
1973
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion and resigned.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
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1979
Wayne Gretzky made his National Hockey League debut as the visiting Edmonton Oilers took on the Chicago Blackhawks.
1985
U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody.
1985
Actor-director Orson Welles died at age 70.
2003
Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his syndicated radio show that he was addicted to painkillers and was checking into a rehab center.
2004
Actor Christopher Reeve, who became a quadriplegic after a May 1995 horse riding accident, died at age 52.
2005
Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany's chancellor.
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