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Today in History: Wednesday, July 15, 2015
On July 15, 1948, President Harry S. Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
1606 The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands.
1870 Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1964 Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
1971 President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People’s Republic of China.
1979 President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech in which he lamented what he called a “crisis of confidence” in America. Though he didn’t use the word, it became known as the “malaise” speech.
1992 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York City.
1996 MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable TV and the Internet.
1997 Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan was found dead eight days later.
2002 John Walker Lindh, an American who had fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to two felonies in a deal sparing him life in prison.
2002 A Pakistani judge convicted four Islamic militants in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl.
2007 The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles announced it was settling clergy sex-abuse cases for $660 million.
2007 The Philadelphia Phillies lost for the 10,000th time in franchise history, a 10-2 defeat at the hands of the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.
2010 BP stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico after 85 days using a 75-ton cap lowered onto the well earlier in the week.
2011 Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Les Hinton, and the chief of his British operations, Rebekah Brooks, as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal.
2011 Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony announced they were breaking up after seven years of marriage.
Today’s Birthdays:
Actress Diane Kruger turns 39 years old today.
George Voinovich, Former Ohio governor, U.S. senator, 79
Patrick Wayne, Actor, 76
Millie Jackson, R&B singer, 71
Jan-Michael Vincent, Actor, 71
Linda Ronstadt, Singe,r 69
Artimus Pyle, Rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), 67
Terry O’Quinn, Actor (“Lost”), 63
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman, R-Fla., 63
John Stallworth, Football Hall of Famer, 63
Joe Satriani, Rock musician, 59
Kim Alexis, Model, 55
Willie Aames, Actor (“Eight is Enough”), 55
Lolita Davidovich, Actress, 54
Forest Whitaker, Actor, 54
Brigitte Nielsen, Actress, 52
Eddie Griffin, Actor, comedian, 47
Scott Foley, Actor (“The Unit,” “Felicity”), 43
Brian Austin Green, Actor (“Beverly Hills 90210”), 42
The Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington turns 65 years old today.