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2009 Event - A solar eclipse, the longest in history, lasts up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean

1990 Event - New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)

1989 Event - 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn

1985 Event - Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)

1984 Event - Longest pro football game, Los Angeles Express beats Michigan Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds

1975 Event - Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes

1974 Event - 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975

1969 Event - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days

1965 Event - Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days

1938 Event - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)

1936 Event - Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds

1936 Event - Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 minutes and 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes), ends 1-0

1920 Event - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years

1905 Event - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days

1875 Event - Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years

1870 Event - Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hour and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch

1836 Event - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days

1764 Event - John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years









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