1917 – The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.<\/p>\n
1935 – NBC radio debuted “G-men.” The show was later renamed “Gangbusters.”<\/p>\n
1942 – The first detachment of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n
1944 – An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler’s Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.<\/p>\n
1944 – U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.<\/p>\n
1947 – The National Football League (NFL) ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n
1961 – “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off” opened in London.<\/p>\n
1969 –\u00a0Apollo 11<\/i>\u00a0astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.<\/p>\n
1974 – Turkish forces invaded Cyprus.<\/p>\n
1976 – America’s\u00a0Viking I<\/i>\u00a0robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.<\/p>\n
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.<\/p>\n
1985 – Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon “Nuestra Senora de Atocha.” The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL.<\/p>\n
1992 – Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n
1998 – Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.<\/p>\n
2003 – In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2013 The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2013 James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.<\/p>\n
2013 \u2013 Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2013 A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suru\u00e7, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2013 The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.<\/p>\n
2017 \u2013 O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
1981 \u2013 Viktoria Lad\u00f5nskaja, Estonian journalist and politician
\n1982 \u2013 Antoine Vermette, Canadian ice hockey player
\n1984 \u2013 Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
\n1984 \u2013 Matt Gilroy, American ice hockey player
\n1985 \u2013 John Francis Daley, American actor and screenwriter
\n1985 \u2013 David Mundy, Australian footballer
\n1986 \u2013 Osric Chau, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
\n1987 \u2013 Nicola Benedetti, Scottish violinist
\n1987 \u2013 Niall McGinn, Irish footballer
\n1988 \u2013 Julianne Hough, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
\n1988 \u2013 Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player
\n1989 \u2013 Javier Cort\u00e9s, Mexican footballer
\n1989 \u2013 Cristian Pasquato, Italian footballer
\n1990 \u2013 Lars Unnerstall, German footballer
\n1991 \u2013 Chiyosh\u014dma Fujio, Mongolian sumo wrestler
\n1991 \u2013 Kira Kazantsev, Miss America 2015
\n1993 \u2013 Steven Adams, New Zealand basketball player
\n1995 \u2013 Moses Leota, New Zealand rugby league player
\n1996 \u2013 Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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