This Day in History June 26- July 2

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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1541 Conqueror of the Incas assassinated
1917 First U.S. troops arrive in France
1959 St. Lawrence Seaway opened
1993 Clinton punishes Iraq for plot to kill Bush
2003 Former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond dies

AMER. REVOLUTION
1784 Delaware Patriot Caesar Rodney dies

AUTOMOTIVE
1906 First Grand Prix is staged

CIVIL WAR
1862 Battle of Mechanicsville

COLD WAR
1948 Berlin Airlift begins

CRIME
1957 A serial killer preys upon a woman out for a drive

DISASTER
1807 Lightning strikes in Luxembourg

ENTERTAINMENT
1933 Kraft Music Hall debuts

LEAD STORY
1945 U.N. CHARTER SIGNED:

LITERARY
1892 Pearl Buck's birthday

OLD WEST
1876 Reno takes command of 7th Cavalry

PRESIDENTIAL
1844 President John Tyler weds his second wife

VIETNAM WAR
1965 Westmoreland given authority to commit U.S. forces

WALL STREET
1998 AMP introduces mandatory furloughs

WORLD WAR I
1917 First U.S. troops arrive in France

WORLD WAR II
1940 Turkey declares nonbelligerency

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June 27

MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1829 Smithson's curious bequest
1844 Mormon leader killed by mob

AMER. REVOLUTION
1775 Schuyler dispatched to Ticonderoga and Crown Point

AUTOMOTIVE
1990 Days of Thunder is released

CIVIL WAR
1864 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

COLD WAR
1950 U.N. approves armed force to repel North Korea

CRIME
1921 Four-time thief escapes Baumes law

DISASTER
1976 Ebola breaks out in Sudan

ENTERTAINMENT
1939 "Frankly, My Dear..."

LEAD STORY
1950 TRUMAN ORDERS U.S. FORCES TO KOREA:

LITERARY
1953 Alice McDermott's birthday

OLD WEST
1874 Buffalo hunters and Indians clash at Adobe Walls

PRESIDENTIAL
1963 JFK visits Ireland

VIETNAM WAR
1968 U.S. forces begin to evacuate Khe Sanh

WALL STREET
1905 Wobblies unite

WORLD WAR I
1914 Colonel House meets with British foreign secretary in London

WORLD WAR II
1940 Germans get Enigma

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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1519 Charles elected Holy Roman emperor
1914 Archduke Ferdinand assassinated
1969 The Stonewall Riot

AMER. REVOLUTION
1836 Former President James Madison dies

AUTOMOTIVE
1914 Ferdinand assassinated in Austro-Daimler

CIVIL WAR
1862 Confederates capture the St. Nicolas

COLD WAR
1948 Yugoslavia expelled from COMINFORM

CRIME
1975 A teenage girl's boyfriend murders her parents

DISASTER
1992 Two big quakes rock California

ENTERTAINMENT
1916 Lasky Co. and Famous Players Co. merge

LEAD STORY
1919 KEYNES PREDICTS ECONOMIC CHAOS:

LITERARY
1888 Robert Louis Stevenson sets sail for the South Seas

OLD WEST
1857 Western writer Emerson Hough is born

PRESIDENTIAL
1919 Harry S. Truman marries Bess Wallace

VIETNAM WAR
1965 U.S. forces launch first offensive

WALL STREET
1894 Feds honor Labor Day

WORLD WAR I
1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

WORLD WAR II
1940 Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the leader of the Free French

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June 29

MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1966 Vietnam air war escalates
1972 Supreme Court strikes down death penalty
1974 Isabela Peron takes office as Argentine president

AMER. REVOLUTION
1776 South Carolina’s Edward Rutledge opposes independence

AUTOMOTIVE
1902 Renault wins in car he designed

CIVIL WAR
1862 Battle of Savage's Station

COLD WAR
1989 Congress votes new sanctions against China

CRIME
1993 A serial rapist strikes in Allentown

DISASTER
1995 Seoul department store collapses

ENTERTAINMENT
1933 Fatty Arbuckle dies

LEAD STORY
1941 GERMANS ADVANCE IN USSR:

LITERARY
1613 The Globe Theater burns down

OLD WEST
1835 Texan William Travis prepares for war with Mexico

PRESIDENTIAL
1943 FDR writes to Manhattan Project physicist Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

VIETNAM WAR
1970 U.S. ground troops return from Cambodia

WALL STREET
1906 TR's Hepburn Act is passed

WORLD WAR I
1915 Austria-Hungary protests shipment of U.S. munitions to Britain

WORLD WAR II
1941 Germans capture Lvov-and slaughter ensues

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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1859 Daredevil crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope
1934 Night of the Long Knives
1971 Soviet cosmonauts perish in reentry disaster

AMER. REVOLUTION
1775 Congress impugns Parliament and adopts Articles of War

AUTOMOTIVE
1953 First Corvette produced

CIVIL WAR
1862 Battle of Glendale (White Oak Swamp)

COLD WAR
1950 Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea

CRIME
1981 A first-time offender ends up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List

DISASTER
1900 Fire breaks out at New Jersey pier

ENTERTAINMENT
1923 Sidney Bechet's first record

LEAD STORY
1520 SPANISH RETREAT FROM AZTEC CAPITAL:

LITERARY
1936 Gone with the Wind is published

OLD WEST
1876 Soldiers are evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat

PRESIDENTIAL
1812 Madison makes urgent call to commission more officers to fight the British

VIETNAM WAR
1967 Thieu becomes president

WALL STREET
1957 Feds pull plug on RFC

WORLD WAR I
1914 European powers maintain focus despite killings in Sarajevo

WORLD WAR II
1943 Operation Cartwheel is launched

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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1867 Canadian Independence Day
1898 The Battle of San Juan Hill
1997 Hong Kong returned to China

AUTOMOTIVE
1956 Highway Revenue Act goes into effect

CIVIL WAR
1863 The Battle of Gettysburg begins

COLD WAR
1947 "Mr. X" article appears in Foreign Affairs

CRIME
1937 Attempt to frame church deacon for murder is foiled

ENTERTAINMENT
1941 NBC airs first official TV commercial

LEAD STORY
1916 BATTLE OF THE SOMME BEGINS:

LITERARY
1804 George Sand is born

OLD WEST
1887 Gunfighter Clay Allison killed

VIETNAM WAR
1965 Ball recommends compromise in Vietnam

WALL STREET
1862 The tax man cometh...

WORLD WAR II
1942 The Battle of El Alamein begins

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July 2

MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1839 Mutiny on the Amistad slave ship
1881 President Garfield shot
1900 Zeppelin demonstrates airship
1964 Johnson signs Civil Rights Act

AUTOMOTIVE
1992 Chevrolet celebrates 1 million Corvettes

CIVIL WAR
1863 The second day of battle at Gettysburg

COLD WAR
1947 Soviet Union rejects Marshall Plan assistance

CRIME
1881 President Garfield is shot

ENTERTAINMENT
1934 Fox signs Shirley Temple

LEAD STORY
1937 AMELIA EARHART DISAPPEARS:

LITERARY
1992 Stephen Hawkings breaks British bestseller records

OLD WEST
1809 Chief Tecumseh urges Indians to unite against whites

VIETNAM WAR
1964 Republican Congressional leaders attack Johnson's policy

WALL STREET
1890 Sherman's march against monopolies

WORLD WAR II
1944 American bombers deluge Budapest, in more ways than one