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| 1227 | The Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died. |
| 1587 | Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. |
| 1846 | U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, N.M. |
| 1894 | Congress established the Bureau of Immigration. |
| 1914 | President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I. |
| 1954 | Assistant Secretary of Labor James E. Wilkins became the first African-American to attend a meeting of a president's Cabinet as he sat in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. |
| 1958 | The novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons, almost three years after the book was originally published in Paris. |
| 1963 | James Meredith became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Mississippi. |
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| 1969 | The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix. |
| 1983 | Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion damage. |
| 1988 | Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H.W. Bush's running mate during the Republican National Convention in New Orleans. |
| 1991 | Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea. |
| 1997 | Virginia Military Institute admitted a female student for the first time in its 158-year history. |
| 2005 | A judge in Wichita, Kan., sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms. |
| 2005 | Pope Benedict XVI began his first foreign trip as pontiff in low-key style, returning to his German homeland. |
| 2008 | Pervez Musharraf resigned as the president of Pakistan. |
