Happy Birthday, George W. Bush and Nancy Reagan!
Birth anniversaries of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones (1747-1792)
Anniversary of the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney at Liverpool, England (1957).
Happy Birthday! Dalai Lama, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Ward
1854 - In Jackson, MI, the Republican Party held its first convention.
1858 - Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his anti-rabies vaccine. The child used in the test later became the director of the Pasteur Institute.
1917 - During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
1923 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
1932 - The postage rate for first class mail in the U.S. went from 2-cents to 3-cents.
1942 - Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. She was the first black athlete to win the event.
1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that retirement plans could not pay women smaller monthly payments solely because of their gender.
1988 - Several popular beaches were closed in New York City due to medical waste and other debris began washing up on the seashores.
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