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1996 Centennial Olympic Park Bombing: Right-wing extremist Eric Robert Rudolph commits the first of his four bombings. Two people were killed and 111 were injured. He later set off bombs at two abortion clinics and a lesbian night club.
1987 The Titanic: First artifacts from the four-story "unsinkable" ship are recovered by French explorers. She sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic during her maiden voyage.
1986 First non-European to win the Tour de France bicycle race: American cyclist Greg LeMond wins what is considered the most important event in bike racing.
1976 The Beatles: John Lennon is issued his green card, allowing him to live in the U.S., where he had been living illegally since a 1972 deportation order.
1953 Korean War: The three-year war officially ends with the signing of an armistice between the U.S. and Korea. Both sides claimed victory.
1919 Chicago Race Riot: Four days of rioting begins in which 23 blacks and 15 whites are killed, with more than 500 people injured.
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable: Laying of the 1,686-mile cable from Ireland to Newfoundland is completed.
1804 12th Amendment ratified, defined the electing of the President and Vice-President by electoral vote.
1949 Maureen McGovern, American singer. She sang the themes to The Poseidon Adventure (1973, #1, Oscar) and The Towering Inferno (1975, Oscar).
1948 Peggy Fleming, American figure skater, 3-time world champion (1966-68), 5-time U.S. champion (1964-68), and Olympic gold medal winner (1968).
1948 Betty Thomas, American Emmy-winning actress. TV: Hill Street Blues (Sgt. Lucy Bates).
1944 Bobbie Gentry (Roberta Streeter), American Grammy-winning singer. Music: Ode to Billie Joe (1967, #1) and I'll Never Fall In Love Again (1970).
1938 Gary Gygax, American gamer, co-inventor of the game Dungeons & Dragons.
1931 Jerry Van Dyke, American actor, Dick's brother. TV: Coach (Luther).
1922 Norman Milton Lear, American producer, writer. TV: All in the Family and the soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
1922 d. 1986 Adolfo Celi, Italian actor. Film: Thunderball (1965, one-eyed SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo).
1916 d. 1986 Keenan Wynn (Francis Wynn), American actor. TV: Dallas (Digger Barnes). He appeared in over 200 films.
1852 d. 1938 George Foster Peabody, American banker, director of the Federal Reserve Bank at New York (1914-21). The Peabody broadcasting awards were created in his honor (1940).
1824 d. 1895 Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), French author, playwright. Writings: Camille (1852) and The Natural Son (1858).
1946 b. 1874 Gertrude Stein, American author, poet, famous for her phrase "A rose is a rose is a rose."
1844 b. 1766 John Dalton, English chemist, physicist, perfected the atomic theory (1804).
1828 b. 1755 Gilbert Stuart, American artist, painted the portrait of Washington (1796) that appears on the $1 bill.
1741 b. circa 1675 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque violin virtuoso and composer, called "The Red Priest."
1061 b. ???? Nicholas II, religious leader, 155th Pope (1059-61).
432 b. ???? Saint Celestine I, religious leader, 43rd Pope (422-432).
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