| On this date in: |
| 1694 | The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution. |
| 1789 | Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the State Department. |
| 1794 | French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day. |
| 1861 | Union Gen. George B. McClellan was put in command of the Army of the Potomac. |
| 1866 | After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe. |
| 1940 | Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare." |
| 1960 | Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. |
| 1967 | In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence. |
| 1974 | The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Richard M. Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
 | Rep. Joshua Eilberg, D-Penn. |
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| 1980 | The deposed Shah of Iran died in Egypt at age 60. |
| 1995 | The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. |
| 1996 | A pipe bomb exploded at a public park during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and injuring more than 100. |
| 2003 | Comedian Bob Hope died at age 100. |
| 2003 | Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight Tour de France title. |
| 2005 | Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. |
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