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| 1606 |
The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands. |
| 1870 |
Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. |
| 1964 |
Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. |
| 1971 |
President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People’s Republic of China.
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| 1979 |
President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech in which he lamented what he called a “crisis of confidence” in America. Though he didn’t use the word, it became known as the “malaise” speech. |
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| 1992 |
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York City. |
| 1996 |
MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable TV and the Internet. |
| 1997 |
Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan was found dead eight days later. |
| 2002 |
John Walker Lindh, an American who had fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to two felonies in a deal sparing him life in prison. |
| 2002 |
A Pakistani judge convicted four Islamic militants in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. |
| 2007 |
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles announced it was settling clergy sex-abuse cases for $660 million. |
| 2007 |
The Philadelphia Phillies lost for the 10,000th time in franchise history, a 10-2 defeat at the hands of the visiting St. Louis Cardinals. |
| 2010 |
BP stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico after 85 days using a 75-ton cap lowered onto the well earlier in the week. |
| 2011 |
Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Les Hinton, and the chief of his British operations, Rebekah Brooks, as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal. |
| 2011 |
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony announced they were breaking up after seven years of marriage. |
