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| 100 B.C. |
Julius Caesar was born in Rome. |
| 1543 |
England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr. |
| 1690 |
Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. |
| 1862 |
Congress authorized the Medal of Honor. |
| 1895 |
Broadway lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II was born in New York City. |
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| 1908 |
Comedian Milton Berle was born Mendel Berlinger in New York City. |
| 1972 |
George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Miami Beach. |
| 2001 |
Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement. |
| 2005 |
Prince Albert II of Monaco acceded to the throne. |
| 2006 |
Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid; Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon in response. |
| 2010 |
Roman Polanski was declared a free man, no longer confined to house arrest in his Alpine villa, after Swiss authorities rejected a U.S. request for the Oscar-winning director’s extradition because of a 32-year-old sex conviction. |
