From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/quotes/s-569513-329964
In 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the Canadian town
of Quebec.
In 1775, George Washington took command of the Continental Army at
Cambridge, Mass.
In 1863, the Union army under command of Gen. George Meade defeated
Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, Pa.
The same day, Vicksburg, Miss., surrendered to Union troops led by
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
In 1928, the first color television transmission was accomplished by
John Logie Baird in London.
In 1971, rock star Jim Morrison, 27, was found dead in a bathtub in
Paris of heart failure.
In 1976, Israeli commandos raided the airport at Entebbe, Uganda,
rescuing 103 hostages held by Arab militants.
In 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan re-lit the Statue of Liberty's
torch in New York Harbor after a $66 million restoration of the statue
was completed during the 100th anniversary year of its dedication.
Also in 1986, Rudy Vallee, one of the nation's most popular singers in
the 1920s and '30s, died at the age of 84.
In 1988, missiles fired from the USS Vincennes brought down an Iranian
airliner in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
In 1992, the U.S. Air Force joined the international airlift of food
and medical supplies to besieged residents of Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 1993, exiled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and Lt. Gen.
Raoul Cedras, who led the coup in 1991 that ousted him, announced an
agreement that would put Aristide back in power by October. Cedras
later broke the agreement.
In 1996, Boris Yeltsin was re-elected president of Russia, defeating
Gennadi Zyuganov in a runoff.
In 2000, blasts caused by suicide bombers in Chechnya killed at least
37 Russian soldiers.
In 2005, water temperatures in the lower Great Lakes were reported at
a five-year high.
In 2007, the Czech Republic tentatively granted the United States
permission to install missile-defense radar 50 miles from Prague as
part of the U.S. plan to protect itself and its European allies from
potential attacks.
Also in 2007, a three-month standoff turned violent between Pakistani
police and radical students who had taken over an Islamabad mosque. At
least nine people died.
In 2008, after being held for nearly six years by Colombian rebels, 15
hostages, including three U.S. military contractors and
French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, were freed by commandos
who had infiltrated the rebels' leadership.
Also in 2008, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that
62,000 American jobs were lost during June, the sixth consecutive
month of job losses.