French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the Canadian town of Quebec.
1775
George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
1863
The Union army under command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, Pa. The same day, Vicksburg, Miss., surrendered to Union troops led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
1928
The first color television transmission was accomplished by John Logie Baird in London.
1971
Rock star Jim Morrison, 27, was found dead in a bathtub in Paris of heart failure.
1976
Israeli commandos raided the airport at Entebbe, Uganda, rescuing 103 hostages held by Arab militants.
1986
U.S. President Ronald Reagan re-lit the Statue of Liberty's torch in New York Harbor after a $66 million restoration of the statue was completed during the 100th anniversary year of its dedication.
1986
Rudy Vallee, one of the nation's most popular singers in the 1920s and '30s, died at the age of 84.
1988
Missiles fired from the USS Vincennes brought down an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1992
The U.S. Air Force joined the international airlift of food and medical supplies to besieged residents of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1993
Exiled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, who led the coup in 1991 that ousted him, announced an agreement that would put Aristide back in power by October. Cedras later broke the agreement.
1996
Boris Yeltsin was re-elected president of Russia, defeating Gennadi Zyuganov in a runoff.
2000
Blasts caused by suicide bombers in Chechnya killed at least 37 Russian soldiers.
2005
Water temperatures in the lower Great Lakes were reported at a five-year high.
2007
The Czech Republic tentatively granted the United States permission to install missile-defense radar 50 miles from Prague as part of the U.S. plan to protect itself and its European allies from potential attacks.
2007
A three-month standoff turned violent between Pakistani police and radical students who had taken over an Islamabad mosque. At least nine people died.
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