| On this date in: |
| 1553 |
King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed. |
| 1848 |
A pioneer women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y. |
| 1870 |
The Franco-Prussian war, which led to the unification of the German states, began. |
| 1922 |
George McGovern, a U.S. senator and the Democratic presidential candidate in 1972, was born in Avon, S.D. |
| 1969 |
Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins on board, went into orbit around the moon. |
| 1979 |
The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas. |
| 1980 |
The Summer Olympics began in Moscow with dozens of nations boycotting because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. |
| 1984 |
Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party’s convention in San Francisco.
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| 1986 |
Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg. |
| 1989 |
A United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; 184 survived. |
| 2005 |
President George W. Bush announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. |
| 2011 |
Summoned by British lawmakers to answer for a phone hacking and bribery scandal at one of his tabloids, media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was humbled and ashamed, but accepted no responsibility for wrongdoing. |
