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Today's Highlight in History: On August 31st, 1980, Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day-old strike. On this date: In 1886, an earthquake rocked Charleston, South Carolina, killing up to 110 people. In 1887, Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his Kinetoscope, a device which produced moving pictures. In 1888, Mary Ann Nicholls was found murdered in London's East End in what is generally regarded as the first slaying committed by Jack the Ripper. In 1935, President Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U-S arms to belligerents. In 1941, the radio program The Great Gildersleeve debuted on NBC. In 1954, Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths. In 1969, boxer Rocky Marciano died in a light airplane crash in Iowa, a day before his 46th birthday. In 1985, Richard Ramirez, later convicted of California's Night Stalker killings, was captured by residents of an East Los Angeles neighborhood. In 1986, 82 people were killed when an Aeromexico jetliner and a small private plane collided over Cerritos, California. In 1988, 14 people were killed when a Delta Boeing 727 crashed during takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. | 
