1861: The future president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, and four other Southerners resigned from the U.S. Senate.

1954: The first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton, Conn.

1977: President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

1997: Speaker Newt Gingrich was fined as the House voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct.

2003: The Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had surpassed blacks as America's largest minority group.

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