On This Date By The Associated Press 1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected baseballs first commissioner. 1942 The World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. 1948 Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. 1954 Ellis Island closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892. 1982 Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Partys Central Committee. 1985 Xavier Suarez was elected Miamis first Cuban-American mayor. 1990 Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne. 1997 Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. 1999 President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping measure knocking down Depression-era barriers and allowing banks, investment firms and insurance companies to sell each others products. 2001 An American Airlines flight crashed near New Yorks Kennedy airport, killing 265 people. 2004 A jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. (Peterson was later sentenced to death.) 2009 Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre. 2011 Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned. 2011 The Arab League voted to suspend Syria over the countrys bloody crackdown on protesters.
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