This Day In History
- 1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain.
- 1861 The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Va.
- 1868 Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed this day.
- 1871 British Columbia joined the confederation as a Canadian province.
- 1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
- 1917 The World War I draft lottery began.
- 1942 The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
- 1944 Adolf Hitler was only slightly wounded when a bomb planted by would-be assassins exploded at the German leader's Rastenburg headquarters.
- 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- 1951 Jordan's King Abdullah Ibn Hussein was assassinated in Jerusalem.
- 1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.
- 1977 A flash flood hit Johnstown, Pa., killing 80 people and causing $350 million in damage.
- 1990 A federal appeals court set aside Oliver North's Iran-Contra convictions.
- 1992 Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia.
- 1993 White House deputy counsel Vince Foster was found shot to death in a park near Washington in an apparent suicide.
- 1994 Bosnian Serbs rejected an international peace plan sponsored by the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Germany.
- 1997 Seven people were arrested after New York City police found scores of deaf Mexicans kept in slave-like conditions and forced to peddle trinkets for smugglers who had brought them to the United States.
- 1999 After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface.
- 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary (explorer: first to climb Mt. Everest)
- 1938 Diana Rigg (The Avengers)
- 1938 Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin)
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