Also on this day: British troops burn Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.The United States and Mexico sign a treaty under which the U.S.
agrees to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for $10 million in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase. Grigory Rasputin, the so-called "Mad Monk" who wielded considerable influence with Czar Nicholas II, is killed by a group of Russian noblemen in St.
Petersburg. (AP Photo) California’s first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena, is officially opened by Gov.
Culbert L. Olson. A near-riot of teenage female fans greet the opening of Frank Sinatra’s singing engagement at the Paramount Theater in New York’s Times Square.
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