On This Date By The Associated Press 1757 American founding father Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies. 1805 The Michigan Territory was created. 1861 Alabama seceded from the Union. 1973 Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule. 1977 France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. 2002 The first planeload of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at a U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba. 2003 Calling the death penalty process arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral, Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates, clearing his states death row two days before leaving office. 2007 English soccer player David Beckham announced a five-year deal to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy. 2008 Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to conquer Mount Everest, died at age 88. 2010 Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that hed used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseballs home run record in 1998.
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