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1837:Eighteen-year-old Princess Victoria of Kent becomes queen of the United Kingdom after the death of her uncle, King William IV. Victoria's reign of more than 63 years will be the longest of any British monarch and gives its name to the prosperous and relatively peaceful Victorian era.
1863: Arthur Boreman is inaugurated as the first governor of West Virginia, which enters the Union on the same day as the 35th state. West Virginia is composed of the western counties that refused to secede with the rest of Virginia during the Civil War.
1947: Bugsy Siegel, a legendary West Coast organized-crime leader and a major driving force behind the growth of Las Vegas, is murdered by an unknown assailant at his girlfriend Virginia Hill's mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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