This day in history

1901 McKinley dies of infection from gunshot wounds
American Revolution
1779 Brodhead completes Allegheny River expedition
Automotive
1927 Dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in car accident
Civil War
1862 North and South clash at the Battle of South Mountain
Cold War
1959 Soviet probe reaches the moon
Crime
1974 A song about crime hits the charts
Disaster
1999 Millions flee from Hurricane Floyd
General Interest
1812 Napoleon enters Moscow
1847 Scott captures Mexico City
1975 American canonized as saint
Hollywood
1982 Hollywood star and real-life princess Grace Kelly dies
Literary
1914 Make Way for Ducklings author Robert McCloskey is born
1964 Steinbeck wins the Medal of Freedom
Music
1955 Little Richard records “Tutti Frutti”
Old West
1901 An adoptive westerner becomes president of the United States
Presidential
1901 President William McKinley dies from gunshot wounds
Sports
1968 Denny McLain becomes a 30-game winner
Vietnam War
1965 South Vietnamese forces and U.S. advisers conduct parachute assault
1966 Operation Attleboro is launched in War Zone C
World War I
1916 Seventh Battle of the Isonzo
World War II
1944 Americans launch Operation Stalemate—at extraordinary cost

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1874

The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly magazine.

1916

Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.

1917

Vladimir Lenin’s forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky’s government in Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution.

1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.

1962

Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.

1967

Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.

1989

L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. He became the nation’s first elected black governor.

2000

The U.S. went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The outcome wouldn’t be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.

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1777

The Revolutionary War battle of Bennington, Vt., won by American forces.

1829

The original Siamese twins, Eng and Chang, arrived in Boston.

1948

Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York City at age 53.

1960

Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, became an independent republic.

1962

Algeria was admitted to the Arab League.

1977

Elvis Presley died at Graceland, his Memphis,Tenn., home, from heart failure at age 42.

2003

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin died.

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1057

Macbeth, king of Scotland, was killed by Malcolm Canmore.

1911

Proctor & Gamble Company introduced Crisco vegetable shortening.

1935

Aviator Wiley Post and actor Will Rogers were killed in a plane crash.

1939

The Wizard of Oz premiered in Hollywood.

1947

The Indian Independence Bill created the two independent states of India and Pakistan.

1948

South Korea became the Republic of Korea.

1969

Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York.

1998

A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people. It was the deadliest act of violence in more than 30 years of “Troubles.”

2001

Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own.

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1900

International forces entered Beijing, China, in an effort to suppress the antiforeign uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion.

1935

The Social Security Act became law.

1945

Japan surrendered to the United States, ending World War II.

1947

Pakistan became independent of British rule.

1951

Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California.

1995

Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet at the Citadel, the state military college of South Carolina.

1997

Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2003

The largest blackout in North American history hit the northeast.

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The history of August 7th:

1789

Congress established the U.S. War Department.

1947

The wooden raft Kon-Tiki, which carried Thor Heyerdahl and five companions more than 4,000 miles, crashed into a reef in the Pacific.

1959

The United States launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of Earth.

1964

Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which expanded President Johnson’s use of military powers in the Vietnam War.

1987

Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, making the 2.7 mile trip through the frigid waters of the Bering Strait. Cox is surprised by the (relatively) warm welcome she receives from the Soviets.

1998

U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, by terrorists. Some 224 were killed and more than 5,500 injured.

2000

Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Conn., was selected by Al Gore to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.

2007

Barry Bonds passes Hank Aaron on baseball’s all-time homerun list. The record, however, is discredited by many because of Bond’s alleged steroid use.

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