1547 - Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
1788 - US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
2000 - US Senator Daniel K. Inouye and 19 other Japanese-American WWII veterans of the 442nd Regiment belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton
2001 - Mexican artist Frida Kahlo becomes the first Hispanic woman honored on a US postage stamp

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