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| 1485 |
England’s King Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses. |
| 1846 |
The United States annexed New Mexico. |
| 1851 |
The schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America’s Cup. |
| 1893 |
Author, poet, critic and wit Dorothy Parker was born in West Bend, N.J. |
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| 1902 |
President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile, in Hartford, Conn. |
| 1904 |
Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping was born in Sichuan province. |
| 1920 |
Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Ill. |
| 1956 |
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon were nominated for second terms by the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. |
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| 1972 |
President Richard Nixon was nominated for a second term of office by the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. |
| 1986 |
Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of Karen Silkwood $1.38 million, settling a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit. |
| 1992 |
On the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver. |
| 2003 |
Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse. |
| 2005 |
The last Jewish settlers left the Gaza Strip, ending decades of Israel’s turbulent occupation. |
