George Orwell 1903
- 1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
- 1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.
- 1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
- 1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
- 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
- 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
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