1959: Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.
1971: A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed a total of 43 lives - 32 inmates and 11 employees.
1974: Officers in the Brown County Sheriff's office stopped performing “dog catching” services within the county.
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1991: Turton Congregational Church hosted a quilt show and tour of local homes as a fundraiser for restoration of the church, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.
2001: Two days after the 9/11 terror attacks, the first few jetliners returned to the nation's skies, but several major airports remained closed and others opened only briefly. President George W. Bush visited injured Pentagon workers and said he would carry the nation's prayers to New York.
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