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1509 | England's King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon. |
1913 | Football coach Vince Lombardi was born in New York City. |
1919 | Sir Barton became horse racing's first Triple Crown winner by winning the Belmont Stakes. |
1942 | The United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II. |
1963 | Gov. George Wallace confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama in an effort to defy a federal court order to allow two black students to enroll at the school.
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1963 | Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. |
1977 | Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown. |
1987 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third consecutive term in office. |
1990 | The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting desecration of the American flag. |
1993 | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" motivated by bigotry may be sentenced to extra punishment. |
2001 | Timothy McVeigh was executed by injection for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. |
2002 | Rock musician Paul McCartney married Heather Mills in a remote Irish castle. (The couple divorced in 2008.) |
2002 | The singing competition "American Idol" debuted on Fox. |
2009 | The World Health Organization declared the swine flu outbreak a pandemic. |
2010 | The FIFA World Cup opened in South Africa, the first time soccer's biggest tournament was held on that continent. |
2012 | Rafael Nadal won his record seventh French Open title, defeating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5. |
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