Charles Edward Magoon was a prominent United States lawyer, judge, diplomat, and colonial administrator who is best remembered as a colonial Governor of both the Panama Canal Zone and Cuba. He was also the subject of several small scandals during his career. As a legal adviser working for the United States Department of War, he drafted recommendations and reports that were used by Congress and the executive branch in governing the United States' new territories following the Spanish-American War. These reports were collected as a published book in 1902, then considered the seminal work on the subject. During his time as a colonial governor, Magoon worked to put these recommendations into practice.

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1492: Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola)

1590: Niccolò Sfondrati became Pope Gregory XIV, succeeding Pope Urban VII who died two months earlier. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XIV)

1766: In London, James Christie opened what is today the world's leading art business and fine arts auction house. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie%27s)

1933: Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States)

1945: Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19)

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inevitably: In a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent; as expected. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inevitably)

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