On This Date By The Associated Press 1901 Queen Victoria died at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne. 1905 Russian troops opened fired on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as Bloody Sunday. 1922 Pope Benedict XV died. 1938 Thornton Wilders play Our Town premiered in Princeton, N.J. 1944 Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II. 1953 The Arthur Miller drama The Crucible opened on Broadway. 1968 Rowan & Martins Laugh-In premiered on NBC. 1970 The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London. 1973 Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64. 1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104. 1997 The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nations first female secretary of state. 1998 Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. 2008 Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive dirty bomb, was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges. 2009 President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects. (The prison remains open.) 2010 Conan OBrien ended his brief tenure as host of The Tonight Show after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.
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