| On this date in: |
| 1801 | The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean. |
| 1922 | Singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn. |
| 1935 | Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio. |
| 1940 | Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy. |
| 1942 | The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official. |
| 1946 | Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic. |
| 1964 | The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers. |
| 1977 | James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others. (He was recaptured three days later.) |
| 1978 | Affirmed won horse racing's Triple Crown by taking the Belmont Stakes. |
| 1985 | Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. |
| 1991 | Jaycee Dugard, 11, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities. |
| 1999 | Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war. |
| 2000 | Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69. |
| 2003 | ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal. |
| 2007 | The final episode of "The Sopranos" aired on HBO. |
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