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1847 Gen. Winfield Scott captured Mexico City during the Mexican-American War.

1879 Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger was born.

1899 Producer Hal Wallis was born.

1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest President in U.S. history when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley.

1910 Actor Jack Hawkins was born.

1914 Actor Clayton Moore, best known for playing the Lone Ranger, was born.

1940 Congress created the draft.

1948 Ground was broken for the construction of the United Nations headquarters.

1959 The Soviet's Luna 2 crashed on the lunar surface to become the first man-made object to reach the moon.

1960 OPEC was founded.

1975 Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.

1982 Princess Grace of Monaco died of injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

1984 Joseph Kittinger became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic in a hot air balloon.