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In 1723, economist Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
In 1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier demonstrated their hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.
In 1883 economist John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England.
In 1884 Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman told the Republican Party convention as it considered nominating him for president: “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
In 1887 revolutionary leader Francisco “Pancho” Villa was born in Hacienda de Río
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In 1917 nearly 10 million men began registering for the U.S. draft in World War I.
In 1933 the U.S. abandoned the gold standard.
In 1940 the Battle of France began in World War II.
In 1947 Secretary of State George Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined a program of aid for post-war Europe that would come to be known as the Marshall Plan.
In 1962 Amazing Fantasy No. 15 was published, marking the comics debut of SpiderMan. (The issue was coverdated August 1962.)
In 1967 the Six-Day War began between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
In 1968 Sen. Robert Kennedy, D-N.Y., was shot by Sirhan Sirhan in a Los Angeles hotel shortly after winning the California presidential primary. (He died the next day.)
In 1981 the Centers for Disease Control reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia — the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.
In 1993 country music star Conway Twitty died at 59 in Springfield, Mo.
In 2002 Elizabeth Smart, 14, disappeared from her Salt Lake City home. (She was found safe in March 2003 outside Salt Lake City. Brian David Mitchell, a homeless street preacher, was sentenced to life in prison in May 2011; his estranged wife, Wanda Barzee, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in the abduction.)
In 2004 Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died at 93 in Los Angeles after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
In 2012 Ray Bradbury, a giant of American literature from Waukegan, Ill., who helped popularize science fiction with works such as “The Martian Chronicles” and “Fahrenheit 451”, died; he was 91.
In 2013 a vacant building being torn down fell on an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store in downtown Philadelphia, killing six people and injuring 13.
In 2016 the match between Jamaica and Venezuela was the first of three soccer games to be held at Soldier Field as part of the Copa America Centenario; Venezuela prevailed 1-0.