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1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born.

1791 The HMS Pandora sunk.

1835 European settlers founded the city of Melbourne.

1862 Confederate forces emerged victorious in the Second Battle of Bull Run.

1893 Huey P. Long was born.

1896 Raymond Massey was born.

1898 Shirley Booth was born.

1905 Ty Cobb made his major league debut.

1908 Fred MacMurray was born.

1918 Ted Williams was born.

1941 Nazi forces began a 2 1/2-year siege of Leningrad.

1945 General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.

1965 Bob Dylan's best album, "Highway 61 Revisited," was released.

1967 The Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.

1989 Leona Helmsley is convicted of income tax invasion but acquitted of extortion.

1993 "The Late Show with David Letterman" premiered on CBS.