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1729 – North Carolina becomes a colony.

1850 – Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)

1866 – Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army.

1918 – Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California.

1941 – FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan.

1944 – Operation Cobra: US forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment.

1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

1949 – St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn Dodgers 14-1.

1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day)

1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.

1964 – Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks.

1969 – Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne.

1978 – Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games.

1983 – Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion.

1985 – Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS.

1993 – US Open Women’s Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (-4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson.

1997 – QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 years.

2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo.

2016 – Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo.

2019 – US Justice department announces it is resuming the death penalty, scheduling five executions.

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