1. CURRENT EVENTS ON THIS DAY: During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.“ In Austin, MN, the first sit-down labor strike in America took place U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC U.S. President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, without an apology or admission of guilt, to throw out her sexual harassment lawsuit Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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