Jack Kemp 1935
- 1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.
- 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
- 1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
- 1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
- 1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
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