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In 100 B.C., the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was born.
In 1543, England's King Henry the Eighth married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, who outlived him.
In 1690, Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James the Second at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
In 1812, United States forces led by General William Hull
entered Canada during the War of 1812 against Britain. (However, Hull retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit.)
In 1817, Naturalist-author Henry David Thoreau was born in
Concord, Massachusetts.
In 1854, George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, was born in Waterville, New York.
In 1862, Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
In 1974, John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
In 1977, President Carter defended Supreme Court decisions
limiting government payments for poor women's abortions, saying, "There are many things in life that are not fair."
In 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F.
Mondale announced he'd chosen U.S. Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for the vice presidency of the United States on a major-party ticket.
In 1986, Protestants paraded throughout Northern Ireland
to observe the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, and to
protest the Anglo-Irish accord giving Ireland a consultative role in running the British-ruled province.
In 1990, Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin shocked the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership.
In 1991, a Japanese professor who had translated Salman
Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel's Italian translator was attacked in Milan.
In 1995, President Clinton spelled out school-prayer
guidelines, asserting the First Amendment already guaranteed
adequate freedom of religion.
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