1863 – Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities
1900 – In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
1948 – WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
1967 – Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th and lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th and Yanks beat them 6-3
1977 – Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel’s 6th PM
1983 – Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1986 – President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2002 – Lennox Lewis retains boxing’s WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson
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