TODAY IN HISTORY
In 1712, Pennsylvania’s colonial assembly voted to ban the importation of slaves.
In 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental Congress declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”
In 1848 the French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a “colored Creole,” was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only car on the Louisiana Eastern Railroad. (In ruling in his case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept he renounced in 1954.)
In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City was born when copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
In 1942, the Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a turning point in the Pacific War.
In 1965, the United States Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut overturned, 7 to 2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples.
In 1967, author and critic Dorothy Parker, famous for her caustic wit, died in New York at age 73.
In 1981, Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility that the Israelis believed could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
In 1993, construction began on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was hooked with a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death for the crime.)
In 2021, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her son Paul Murdaugh, 22, from a prominent South Carolina legal family, were found shot to death on their family’s land. (In the wake of the deaths, Maggie Murdaugh’s husband, Alex Murdaugh, would be jailed on dozens of charges, including stealing millions of dollars in legal settlements.)
In 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in a US airstrike on his safe house.
In 2013, death row inmate Richard Ramirez, 53, the serial killer known as California‘s “Night Stalker,” died in a hospital.
In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump claimed their parties’ presidential nominations after contests in New Jersey, California, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota.
In 2018, the Washington Capitals captured their first NHL title with a victory over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final in Las Vegas.
In 2022, Russia claimed to have taken almost full control of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine’s Donbass, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of capturing the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.
In 2023, smoke from Canadian wildfires spilled toward the East Coast and Midwest of the United States, blanketing both nations’ capitals in an unhealthy haze, delaying flights at major airports and forcing people to remove their masks. facials of the coronavirus pandemic.
BIRTHDAY
Film director James Ivory is 96 years old.
Actress Virginia McKenna is 93 years old.
Singer Tom Jones is 84 years old.
Poet Nikki Giovanni is 81 years old.
Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 78 years old.
American singer-songwriter Willie Nile is 76 years old.
Actress Anne Twomey is 73 years old.
Actor Liam Neeson is 72 years old.
Actress Colleen Camp is 71 years old.
Author Louise Erdrich is 70 years old.
Actor William Forsythe is 69 years old.
Record producer LA Reid is 68 years old.
Latin pop singer Juan Luis Guerra is 67 years old.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is 65 years old.
Rock singer and musician Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 61 years old.
Rock musician Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots) is 58 years old.
Rock musician Dave Navarro is 57 years old.
Actress Helen Baxendale is 54 years old.
Senator Ben Ray Luján, DN.M., is 52 years old.
Actor Karl Urban is 52 years old.
Television personality Bear Grylls is 50 years old.
Rock musician Eric Johnson (The Shins) is 48 years old.
Actress Adrienne Frantz is 46 years old.
Actor and comedian Bill Hader is 46 years old.
Actress Anna Torv is 45 years old.
Actress Larisa Oleynik is 43 years old.
Former tennis player Anna Kournikova is 43 years old.
Actor Michael Cera is 36 years old.
Actress Shelley Buckner is 35 years old.
Rapper Iggy Azalea is 34 years old.
Actress and model Emily Ratajkowski is 33 years old.
Rapper Fetty Wap is 33 years old.
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