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On this day in . . .

• 1680, the first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts

• 1775, the Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies

• 1776, the Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Col. John Nixon and the Liberty Bell is famously rung

• 1896, William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

• 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22

• 1947, reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico. ALSO: Demolition work began in New York City to make way for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations

• 1948, the United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF)

• 1950, President Harry S. Truman named Gen. Douglas MacArthur commander in chief of U.N. forces in Korea

• 1960, Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union

• 1982, assassination attempt against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail

• 1997, NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999

• 2009, Group of Eight leaders, including President Barack Obama met in L'Aquila, Italy. They pledged to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

• 2010, a French surgeon said he had performed the first successful transplant of a complete face, giving a 35-year-old disfigured man every feature, including tear ducts

• 2011, the Atlantis began the 135th and final mission of the U.S. space shuttle program that started in 1981, a two-week voyage to the International Space Station with a cargo of supplies and spare parts

• 2014, in an escalating conflict, Israeli airstrikes pounded the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and rockets were fired at Israel. A statement from the military said the strikes were made to "stop the terror Israel's citizens face on a daily basis." ALSO: President Barack Obama appealed to Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the illegal alien crisis on the nation's southern border, where unaccompanied children were showing up by the thousands (Republican lawmakers rejected the request)

• 2015, on a rough day for tech, a "router issue" at United Airlines suspended all of the company's flights for nearly two hours, leading to 800 flight delays and 60 cancellations; a "technical problem" at the New York Stock Exchange halted trading; and the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ.com, had "technical difficulties." (Government officials said it did not appear that the incidents were related, or the result of sabotage.)

• 2018, rescuers removed the first of 12 boys from a flooded Thai cave after the soccer team and their coach became trapped. All 13 would be rescued days later, but a Thai Navy SEAL died in the process

• 2019, Iran began enriching uranium to 4.5%, just breaking the limit set by its nuclear deal with world powers. ALSO: Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sexually abusing dozens of underage girls; the newly unsealed federal indictment came more than a decade after he secretly cut a deal with federal prosecutors to dispose of nearly identical allegations. (Epstein would be found dead,hanging in his jail cell a month later; it was ruled a suicide.) AND: The so-called "Terminator" of the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Bosco Ntaganda -- was found guilty of war crimes by the International Criminal Court in the Netherland

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