On This Date By The Associated Press 1607 An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia. 1842 Composer Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London. 1846 The United States declared that a state of war existed against Mexico. 1914 Boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Ala. 1917 Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. 1940 Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. 1958 Vice President Richard Nixons limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. 1985 Philadelphia police dropped an explosive onto the headquarters of the radical group MOVE; 11 people died in the resulting fire. 1992 The Falun Gong movement had its beginning as the sects founder, Li Hongzhi, began publicly lecturing on his spiritual philosophy in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun. 2003 The government unveiled a new version of the $20 bill - the first to be colorized in an effort to thwart counterfeiters. 2011 Two suicide bombers attacked paramilitary police recruits heading home after months of training in northwest Pakistan, killing 87 people in what the Pakistan Taliban called revenge for the U.S. slaying of Osama bin Laden.
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