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- 1850 - Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes.
- 1867 - Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.Committee.
- 1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke.
- 1976 - O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills) ran for 273 yards against the Detroit Lions.
- 1992 - The Czech parliament voted to split the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics beginning January 1, 1993.
- 1998 - Britain's highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule.
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