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Today in American History - October 9

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Events:

1635 - Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Births:

1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson

1918 - E. Howard Hunt

Deaths:

1806 - Benjamin Banneker

1987 - Clare Boothe Luce

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