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On this day in . . .


1814, Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces

1835, The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax, a series of six articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon. The discoveries were falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel, perhaps the best-known astronomer of his time

1840, Joseph Gibbons of Albion, Michigan received notice that he was awarded a patent for the seeding machine

1875, Captain Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British merchant navy captain, became the first person to swim across the English Channel, getting from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours

1894, Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet

1916, the National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior

1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany

1928, an expedition led by Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, N.J., on its journey to Antarctica.

1943, U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II

1944, during World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi, ym"sh, occupation

1945, 10 days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War

1948, the House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss

1950, President Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike

1954, the United States Postal Service began issuing a Classic Cars booklet of stamps. The special edition stamps featured five different designs: a 1928 Locomobile, a 1929 Pierce-Arrow, a 1931 Cord, a 1932 Packard, and a 1935 Dusenberg

1967, Defense Secretary McNamara concedes that the U.S. bombing campaign has had little effect on the North's "war-making capability." ALSO: A sniper assassinated American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell in Arlington, Va.

1981, the U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet

1985, Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, died with her father in an airliner crash in Maine

1993, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York in connection with a number of terrorist activities, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. ALSO: The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high of 3,652.09

1997, Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy

1999, the FBI admitted it fired pyrotechnic tear-gas canisters at the Branch Davidian cult compound near Waco, Texas, on the day in 1993 that the standoff came to a fiery end but said the containers bounced away harmlessly

2000, bogus Internet news release picked up by financial news agencies sent the stock of high-tech firm Emulex plunging more than 60 percent, but the shares recovered after the company refuted the reports. (Mark Jakob, the author of the phony press release, was later sentenced to nearly four years in prison for wire and securities fraud.)

2001, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, a single mother and former waitress, married Norway's Crown Prince Haakon in Oslo

2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Florida with 80 mph winds and headed into the Gulf of Mexico. ALSO: The base closing commission voted to shut down the Army's historic Walter Reed hospital and move much of its staff and services to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

2006, a college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight that had arrived in Houston from Buenos Aires, Argentina, was found to contain a stick of dynamite, one of six security incidents that day that caused U.S. flights to be diverted, evacuated or searched

2008, Israel foolishly freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians in a goodwill gesture hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began her peace mission to the region, Nothing constructive resulted

2013, Syria agreed to a U.N. investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus - a deal a senior White House official dismissed as "too late to be credible," saying the United States had "very little doubt" President Bashar Assad's forces used such weapons

2016, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump had unleashed the "radical fringe" within the Republican Party, dubbing the billionaire businessman's campaign as one that will "make America hate again"; Trump rejected Clinton's allegations, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats had abandoned them


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