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On this day in . . .


1187, Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem

1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on five ships to find a western passage to the Spice Islands. (Magellan was killed enroute, but one of his ships eventually circled the world.)

1633, Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun

1697, the Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688-97)

1806, after nearly two-and-a-half years spent exploring the western wilderness, the Corps of Discovery arrived at the frontier village of La Charette, the first white settlement they had seen since leaving behind the outposts of eastern civilization in 1804

1873, panic swept the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures

1881, Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield

1884, the National Equal Rights Party was formed during a convention of suffragists in San Francisco; the convention nominated Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood for president

1891, the first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts

1963, an optimistic and upbeat President John F. Kennedy suggests that the Soviet Union and the United States cooperate on a mission to mount an expedition to the moon. The proposal caught both the Soviets and many Americans off guard

1984, a practitioner of that "religion of peace" declares "Allah is great!" before blowing himself up in a car at the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people

2001, addressing a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush told a nation shaken by the 9/11 attacks, "Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." Bush also announced a new Cabinet-level office to fortify homeland security and named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge its director

2002, Israeli forces demolished all but one building of the office compound of Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, after a suicide bomber killed seven people on a Tel Aviv bus

2003, armies of technicians in the Mid-Atlantic states worked to restore power to 2.5 million customers still in the dark from Hurricane Isabel. The storm left at least 25 dead in seven states

2004, CBS News said it regretted broadcasting a controversial report about U.S. President George W. Bush's military service duty, saying its source misled the network

2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (OO'-goh CHAH'-vez) repeatedly referred to President George W. Bush as "the devil" during a speech to the United Nations

2009, with no timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, officials said the United States was in the midst of a massive buildup of CIA and other intelligence resources in that country similar to operations in Iraq and Vietnam

2010, the U.S. recession, called the longest since World War II, beginning in December 2007, ended in June 2009, the National Bureau of Economic Research announced in a committee report. However, despite some signs of economic recovery, unemployment remained high

2013, Chicago police said at least three people were killed and 23 injured -- 13 in one gang-related outburst of gunfire in a park -- in a two-day spate of shootings. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said it was "a miracle there has been no fatality" in the park attack. One of the victims was a 3-year-old boy, shot in the head. Days later, the child's mother said he would need surgery many times in the years ahead

2016, in their final speeches at the annual gathering of world leaders, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon railed against leaders who kept "feeding the war machine" in Syria, while U.S. President Barack Obama said there was no military solution to the five-year conflict. ALSO: A black police officer fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott, a black man, at a Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment complex, prompting days of civil unrest (Charlotte-Mecklenburg police later said that the shooting was justified).


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