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On this day in . . .


1227, Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from the east coast of China west to the Aral Sea, died in camp during a campaign against the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia

1572, wedding in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre with Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics

1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. (However, the colony she was born into ended up mysteriously disappearing.)

1838, the first marine expedition sponsored by the U.S. government set sail from Hampton Roads, Va.; the crews traveled the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information

1868, French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discovers helium

1894, Congress established the Bureau of Immigration

1909, Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River

1920, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage

1938, the Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests

1965, during the Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins; United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war

1982, Lebanon and the Palestine Liberation Organization approved a plan for withdrawal of PLO fighters from besieged West Beirut. Israel approved it the following day

1990, U.S. warships fired warning shots over the bows of two Iraqi tankers, the first salvos of a U.S. embargo

1998, in the wake of his admission of an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, U.S. President Bill Clinton was urged to resign by several members of Congress and more than 100 daily newspapers

2002, Abu Nidal, one of the most feared of the Palestinian terrorists, was found shot to death, an apparent suicide

2003, authorities estimated as many as 10,000 people died because of the heat in France during a European heat wave

2005, Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings. ALSO: Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people

2006, President George W. Bush criticized a federal court ruling the day before that his warrantless wiretapping program was unconstitutional, declaring that opponents "do not understand the nature of the world in which we live."

2010, U.S. combat troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, where 50,000 American troops remained, primarily as trainers, U.S. military officials said. More than 4,400 U.S. troops died in combat that began in March 2003

2011, U.S. President Barack Obama formally called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign "for the sake of the Syrian people." Obama also announced "unprecedented sanctions" to further isolate Syria financially

2016, for the first time since declaring his presidential run, Republican Donald Trump offered an apology to those who might have been hurt by his caustic comments, saying he regretted some of what he had said "in the heat of debate."


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