This Day In History
- 1553 Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed queen.
- 1848 A pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
- 1870 The Franco-Prussian war began.
- 1943 Allied air forces raided Rome during World War II.
- 1969 Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ''Buzz'' Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
- 1975 The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
- 1979 The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
- 1980 The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
- 1984 Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.
- 1985 Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle.
- 1986 Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass.
- 1989 A United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; 184 survived.
- 1990 Baseball's all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.
- 1993 President Bill Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity.
- 1922 George McGovern (U.S. Senator and 1972 presidential contender)
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