452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.
793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England.
1786 - In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time.
1861 - Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy.
1866 - Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC.
1965 - U.S. troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin fighting offensively.
1969 - U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August.
1982 - U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.
1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.
Famous Birthdays:
1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Mathematician and Astronomer
1810 - Robert Schumann, Composer
1925 - Barbara Bush, Wife of former President George H.W. Bush
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, Singer
1957 - Scott Adams, Cartoonist
1977 - Kanye West, Singer, rapper
1983 - Kim Clijsters, Tennis player
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