Today in History

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A significant day in history, around the world...

--1922 Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to prison in India for civil disobedience.

--1931 Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.

--1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain.

--1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the War Relocation Authority, which was put in charge of interning Japanese.

--1962 France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce after more than seven years of war.

--1965 Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov went on the first spacewalk.

--1974 Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.

--2008 US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama confronted America's racial divide with a speech in Philadelphia. It was prompted by incindiary racial remarks made by Obama's African-American pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

--2011 US President Barack Obama demanded that Moammar Gadhafi halt all military attacks on civilians and said that if the Libyan leader did not stand down, the United States would join other nations in launching military action against him.