American gangster Al Capone pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
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African-American poet Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery.
The Normans defeated the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
Canada legally declared women as 'persons.'
Hurricane Hazel hit the American East Coast and became the worst to hit North America.
Former Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan as suicide bombers attacked her convoy in Karachi.