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1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins. 1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey. 1847 – Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War. 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time. 1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole. 1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared. 1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 1975 – Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with four other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog. 2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad. 2009 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington. 2013 – LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in Namibia, killing 33 people.