1926 – Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field in New York. The ball had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.<\/p>\n
1933 – Wiley Post ended his around-the-world flight. He had traveled 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
1937 – The U.S. Senate rejected President Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
1943 – American forces led by General George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.<\/p>\n
1941 – Plans for the Pentagon were presented to the House Subcommittee on Appropriations.<\/p>\n
1955 – U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington,\u00a0DC. It was the first time that a Vice-President had carried out the task.<\/p>\n
1965 – “Till Death Us Do Part” debuted on England\u2019s BBC-TV.<\/p>\n
1975 – Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n
1987 – The U.S. began its policy of escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers up and down the Persian Gulf to protect them from possible attack by Iran.<\/p>\n
1998 – Iran tested medium-range missiles, capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
2000 – Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter.<\/p>\n
2003 – In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces.<\/p>\n
2003 – In Paris, France, a fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower. About 4,000 visitors were evacuated and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
2004 – The September 11 commission’s final report was released. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited “deep institutional failings within our government.” The report was released to White House officials the day before.<\/p>\n
2009 – The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurred over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2013 2011 Norway attacks: first a bomb blast that targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Ut\u00f8ya.<\/p>\n
2013 \u2013 2013 Dingxi earthquakes, a series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.<\/p>\n
1982 \u2013 Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
\n1983 \u2013 Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
\n1983 \u2013 Andreas Ulvo, Norwegian pianist
\n1984 \u2013 Stewart Downing, English footballer
\n1985 \u2013 Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
\n1985 \u2013 Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
\n1986 \u2013 Steve Johnson, American football player
\n1987 \u2013 Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
\n1988 \u2013 Thomas Kraft, German footballer
\n1988 \u2013 Sercan Temizy\u00fcrek, Turkish footballer
\n1989 \u2013 Keegan Allen, American actor, photographer and musician
\n1991 \u2013 Matty James, English footballer
\n1992 \u2013 Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress, and singer
\n1992 \u2013 Selena Gomez, American singer, and actress
\n1993 \u2013 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist
\n1994 \u2013 Jaz Sinclair, American film and television actress
\n1995 \u2013 Ezekiel Elliott, American football player
\n1995 \u2013 Armaan Malik, Indian playback singer, composer and songwriter
\n1996 \u2013 Skyler Gisondo, American actor
\n2002 \u2013 Prince Felix of Denmark
\n2013 \u2013 Prince George of Cambridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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