1912Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee.
1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1968The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2001Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.
2003John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2006 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
1933 Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
1947Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier when he flew the experimental Bell X-1 rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1968The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1998 Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
2001Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office was quarantined after an anthrax-tainted letter was opened.
2003John Allen Muhammad pleaded innocent to murder in the Washington-area sniper case. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2006 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for carrying out a nuclear test.
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