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1483 | England's King Richard III was crowned. |
1535 | Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason. |
1777 | British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution. |
1854 | The first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich. |
1923 | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed. |
1933 | Baseball's first All-Star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park, with the American League's best beating the National Leauge squad 4-2. |
1944 | Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people. |
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1957 | Althea Gibson became the first African-American tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. |
1974 | Garrison Keillor's radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," debuted in a live broadcast from St. Paul, Minn. |
2003 | Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a New York Times op-ed, disputed President George W. Bush's statement that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa, saying he had found no evidence to support the claim when the CIA asked him to investigate. |
2004 | Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his running mate. |
2005 | Soap opera actress Kelly Monaco won the first season of "Dancing With the Stars." |
2005 | New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. |
2010 | Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations for the first time since 1957 during her first New York visit in more than 30 years. |
2010 | Actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days in a residential substance-abuse program for violating her probation stemming from two separate 2007 cases of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. (She served 14 days behind bars.) . |
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