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20091776 Club

Officer opens the door; von Brunn raises a rifle and shoots him dead

Stephen Tyrone Johns, 29, is killed at the Holocaust Museum entrance; two officers return fire, wound the 88-year-old gunman, and end the attack inside two minutes.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was crowded with schoolchildren on the morning of June 10, 2009, when 88-year-old white supremacist and Holocaust denier James Wenneker von Brunn approached the 14th Street entrance. Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, 29, opened the door for him — and von Brunn raised a Winchester .22-caliber rifle and fired. Johns was fatally shot; Officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston returned fire, wounding von Brunn and ending the attack in roughly two minutes. Johns died that day. Von Brunn, charged with first-degree murder and hate crimes, died of natural causes on January 6, 2010, before trial…

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Bridget Bishop is hanged at Salem; the first life taken in the witchcraft trials

The English-born woman, convicted of bewitching five young women, goes to the gallows eight days after the jury returned its verdict.
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1964

Senate breaks the longest filibuster in its history; civil rights vote is cleared

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The U.S. pays $60,000 for its prisoners, a sum Jefferson's men are careful to call ransom, not tribute.
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