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0311: St. Militiades becomes Pope
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0936: Death of Henry I, "the Fowler,"
King of Germany
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1187: Tiberias falls to Saladin
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1323: Dame Alice Kyteler found guilty of
witchcraft, but escapes, with Sarah de Meath
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1439: Portuguese Royal permission given for
settlement of the Azores
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1450: Cade's Rebellion occupies London
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1468: Marriage of Charles the Bold of Burgundy with
Margaret of York
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1504: Death of Stephen "the Great,"
Prince of Moldavia
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1560: Michel de l'Hopital appointed Chancellor of
France
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1566: French astrologer, physician and prophet
Nostradamus died in Salon
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1591: Vincenzo Galilei, son of astronomer Galileo
Galilei, was buried in Florence. The stargazer's son was a composer
and lutenist.
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1627: Lord Carlisle given all the Carribean Islands
by the King of England
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1776: The Continental Congress passed a resolution
saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to
be, Free and Independent States."
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1777: Vermont became the first American colony to
abolish slavery.
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1865: William Booth founded the Salvation Army in
London, England (Army of the Salvation).
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1881: President James Garfield was shot by Charles
Giteau. He died September 19th.
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1890: Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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1911: The conductor and pioneering Wagnerite Felix
Mottl collapsed and died while conducting "Tristan and Isolde"
in Munich.
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1926: The United States Army Air Corps was created.
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1937: American aviator Amelia Earhart and co-pilot
Frederick Noonan were reported lost over the Pacific Ocean. They
were never found.
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1947: An object crashed near Roswell, New Mexico;
the Air Force later insisted it was a weather balloon, but
eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an
alien spacecraft.
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1947: Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred was
convicted of actively supporting the Nazis. Among other punishments,
Winifred Wagner was banned for life from the Bayreuth Festival,
which she had run since the death of her husband Siegfried.
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1961: Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death
at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
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1964: President Johnson signed into law a sweeping
civil rights bill passed by Congress.
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1974: President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid
Brezhnev agreed in Yalta on limitation of undergound nuclear testing
and on a lower ceiling for defense missiles.
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1976: The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was
not inherently cruel or unusual.
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1979: Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin
to honor a woman, is issued.
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1980: President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft
registration for males 18 years of age.
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1982: Larry Walters using a lawn chair hoisted by
42 helium-filled weather balloons, rose to 16,000 after taking off
from San Pedro, CA.
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1987: 18 illegal immigrants were found dead inside
a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in what authorities
called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man survived.
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1988: Nineteen-year-old Steffi Graf defeated
eight-time Wimbledon winner Martina Navratilova, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, to
capture her first Wimbledon crown.
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1989: Former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
died in Moscow at age 79.
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1990: More than 1,400 Muslim pilgrims were killed
in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca in Saudi
Arabia.
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1990: The Soviet Union's 28th Communist Party
congress opened with an address by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev,
who conceded mistakes while defending perestroika.
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1991: A European Community-brokered truce between
Yugoslavia and the breakaway republic of Slovenia was shattered as
the federal army battles Slovene militias.
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1991: Actress Lee Remick died in Los Angeles at age
55.
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1992: The Labor Department reported that the
nation's unemployment rate the previous month had risen to an
eight-year high of 7.8 percent, compared to 7.5 percent in May.
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1992: Braniff Airlines goes out of business.
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1992: President George Bush vetoed the so-called
"motor-voter" registration bill (but President Clinton
later signed a revised version into law).
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1993: The White House acknowledged that it had
erred in firing seven travel office employees and urging the FBI to
investigate them.
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1993: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, some of whose
followers were accused in the World Trade Center bombing,
surrendered to immigration officials in New York.
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1994: Columbian soccer player Andres Escobar was
shot to death in Medellin, 10 days after accidentally scoring a goal
against his own team in World Cup competition.
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1994: Conchita Martinez won the women's title at
Wimbledon, defeating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
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1994: A USAir DC-9 crashed in poor weather at
Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, killing
37 of the 57 people aboard.
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1995: In Denver, representatives of 34 countries
ended an economic summit by endorsing an open-market zone throughout
the Western Hemisphere - excluding Cuba.
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1996: Electricity and phone service was knocked out
for millions of customers from Canada to the Southwest after power
lines throughout the West failed on a record-hot day.
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1996: Seven years after they shot their parents to
death in the family's Beverly Hills mansion, Lyle and Erik Menendez
were sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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1996: The movie "Independence Day" was
released in the movie theaters in USA; it grossed a record $96.4
million in its first weekend (six days) and $83.5 million since July
3, and hit $100 million in only seven days, a record; it also hit
$50.2 million Fri-Sun, shy of Batman Forever's $52.8 million.
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1997: Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills,
California, at age 89.
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1998: Apologizing to viewers and Vietnam veterans
for "serious faults" in its reporting, Cable News Network
retracted a story alleging US commandos had used nerve gas to kill
American defectors during the war.
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1999: Former Northwestern University basketball
coach Ricky Byrdsong was shot to death in Skokie, Ill.; authorities
believe he was the victim of a three-day shooting rampage by white
supremacist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith that targeted minorities in
Illinois and Indiana. (One other person was killed and several
wounded before Smith committed suicide.)
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1999: "Godfather" author Mario Puzo died
on Long Island, N.Y., at age 78.
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2000:Mexicans surged to the polls, turning out by
the tens of millions to elect opposition candidate Vicente Fox as
their next president, shocking and delighting themselves by ending
their country's 71 years of one-party rule.
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2000: Workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation
were allowed to return, following a 191,000-acre fire that disrupted
thousands of lives and raised fears about possible radiation
releases. The fire, started June 27 by a fatal traffic accident,
destroyed 20 homes and scores of other buildings.
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2000: France beat Italy 2-to-1 in the European Championship soccer final in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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