Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 1963, George Washington left Mount Vernon for his inauguration in New York in 1789, Charles Chaplin was born in London in 1889, a Soviet submarine torpedoed and sank the MV Goya in 1945, and a cargo ship exploded and killed nearly 600 people in 1947.
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