On This Date By The Associated Press 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London. 1682 The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pa. 1891 Broadway star Fanny Brice was born Fanny Borach in Newark, N.J. 1901 President William McKinleys assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted. 1923 The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed. 1929 Stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling. Thousands of investors were wiped out. 1940 The United States America began its first peacetime military draft. 1947 Frances Cleveland Preston, the widow of President Grover Cleveland, died at age 83. 1956 Israel invaded Egypts Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis. 1956 The Huntley-Brinkley Report premiered as NBCs nightly TV newscast. 1962 The Beach Boys debut album, Surfin Safari, was released. 1966 The National Organization for Women was founded. 1967 The musical Hair opened off-Broadway. 2004 Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks. 2004 European Union leaders signed the EUs first constitution.
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