Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1634

Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.

1865

During the Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.

1894

Jacob S. Coxey began leading an ''army'' of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

1911

In a tragedy that galvanized America's labor movement, 146 immigrant workers were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.

1913

The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.

1947

A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., killed 111 people.

1957

The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.

1965

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

1975

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. (The nephew was beheaded the following June.) AP correspondent Tom Martin reported on the killing.

1988

In New York City's so-called ''preppie murder case,'' Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. Chambers received a sentence of five to 15 years in prison, which he's still serving.

1990

Fire raced through an illegal social club in New York City, killing 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants.

1992

Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who'd spent 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space station, thereby missing the upheaval in his homeland, finally returned to Earth.

1994

American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.

1995

Boxer Mike Tyson was released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the 1992 rape of Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant.

1996

The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.

1996

An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.

1997

Georgia Gov. Zell Miller signed into law a ban on a controversial form of late-term abortion.

1997

Former President George Bush, 73, parachuted from a plane over the Arizona desert.

1998

President Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that ''we did not act quickly enough'' to stop the slaughter of up to 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.

1998

A cancer patient became the first known to die under Oregon's pioneering doctor-assisted suicide law.

1918

French composer Claude Debussy died in Paris.