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David Crosby was sentenced to eight years in prison. He had been charged with drug and firearm possession. He was paroled in 1986. |
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1992 |
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Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers. The officers had been acquitted on California State charges. Two of the officers were convicted and jailed on violation of civil rights charges. |
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Marie Noe of Philadelphia, PA was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, accused of smothering eight of her children to death between 1949 and 1968. Noe later received 20 years' probation. |
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In Malibu, CA, Robert Downey Jr. was sentenced to three years in prison for missing scheduled drug tests. |
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1974 |
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U.S. President Nixon said that he expected to be impeached. Nixon had ordered the investigation into the Watergate break-in to halt. |
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The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250. |
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1963 |
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The Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. The treaty banned nuclear tests in space, underwater, and in the atmosphere. |
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1884 |
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On Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid. |
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1962 |
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Marilyn Monroe was found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills on this day in 1962, by her housekeeper Eunice Murray. She was naked and slumped across a telephone on her bed, with unhealthy levels of barbiturates in her bloodstream. But the typical signs of barbiturate overdose were completely absent. Supposedly, Monroe had had an abortion at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital on the 20th of July. It has been said that she had as many as a dozen abortions over the years. But certainly it is well known that she was terminated by her job at Fox Studio. And there were problems with her relationship with Robert F Kennedy; he was not returning her calls. To this day evidence is missing, including the original autopsy, her supposed suicide note and original police report. Furthermore, the first officer at the death scene has publicly disputed the suicide finding. In 1985, a 20/20 episode was to air where Robert Slatzer postulates that Monroe was killed by Bobby Kennedy, or was in his presence when she died. |
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1944 |
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Polish insurgents liberated a German labor camp in Warsaw. 348 Jewish prisoners were freed. |
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1953 |
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During the Korean conflict prisoners were exchanged at Panmunjom. The exchange was labeled Operation Big Switch. |
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1989 |
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In Honduras, five Central American presidents began meeting to discuss the timetable for the dismantling of the Nicaraguan Contra bases. |
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1990 |
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U.S. President George H.W. Bush angrily denounced the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. |
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1991 |
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An investigation was formally launched by Democratic congressional leaders to find out if the release of American hostages was delayed until after the Reagan-Bush presidential election. |
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1991 |
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Iraq admitted to misleading U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons. |
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1998 |
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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors. |
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2002 |
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The U.S. closed its consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. The consulate was closed after local authorities removed large concrete blocks and reopened the road in front of the building to normal traffic. |
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1921 |
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The cartoon "On the Road to Moscow", by Rollin Kirby, was published in the "New York World". It was the first cartoon to win a Pulitzer Prize. |
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1924 |
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In the New York "Daily News" debuted the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray. |
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1974 |
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"Tank McNamara", the comic strip, premiered in 75 newspapers. |
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1969 |
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The Mariner 7, a U.S. space probe, passed by Mars. Photographs and scientific data were sent back to Earth. |
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1921 |
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The first play-by-play broadcast of a baseball game was done by Harold Arlin. KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA described the action between the Pirates and Philadelphia. |
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1923 |
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Henry Sullivan became the first American to swim across the English Channel. |
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1960 |
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For the first time two major league baseball clubs traded managers. Detroit traded Jimmy Dykes for Cleveland's Joe Gordon. |
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1984 |
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Toronto’s Cliff Johnson set a major league baseball record by hitting the 19th pinch-hit home run in his career. |
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1999 |
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Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) hit his 500th career homerun. He also set a record for the fewest at-bats to hit the 500 homerun mark. |
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1914 |
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The electric traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio. |
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1986 |
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It was revealed that artist Andrew Wyeth had secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor. The works of Helga Testorf had been created over a 15-year period. |
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1861 |
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The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872. |
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1864 |
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During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Adm. David G. Farragut were led into Mobile Bay, Alabama. |
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1964 |
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U.S. aircraft bombed North Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. |
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1981 |
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The U.S. federal government started firing striking air traffic controllers. |
