363 | | Roman Emperor Julian dies, ending the Pagan Revival. |
1743 | | English King George defeats the French at Dettingen, Bavaria. |
1833 | | Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn. |
1862 | | Confederates break through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines' Mill--the third engagement of the Seven Days' campaign. |
1864 | | General Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. |
1871 | | The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan. |
1905 | | The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies. |
1918 | | Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time. |
1923 | | Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade. |
1924 | | Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job. |
1927 | | The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot. |
1929 | | Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures. |
1942 | | The Allied convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel. |
1944 | | Allied forces capture the port city of Cherbourg, France. |
1950 | | The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. |
1963 | | Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. |
1973 | | President Richard Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing. |
1985 | | The U.S. House of Representatives votes to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua. |
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