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In 1608, Quebec City was founded by French explorer Samuel de Champlain.

In 1775 , George Washington took command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, Mass.

In 1863 the three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., ended in a Union victory.

In 1898 the Navy defeated the Spanish fleet outside the harbor of Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War.

In 1944 Soviet forces recaptured Minsk from the Germans in World War II, taking 100,000 prisoners.

In 1950 U.S. and North Korean forces clashed for the first time in the Korean War.

In 1962 Algeria became independent

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In 1976 Israeli commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing 103 hostages on a hijacked airliner. (Four Israelis, seven of the 10 hijackers and 20 Ugandan soldiers were killed.)

In 1986 the torch was relighted atop the renovated Statue of Liberty.

In 1988 the USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 passengers and crew, after the Vincennes misidentified the plane as an Iranian F-14 fighter.

In 1996 Russians re-elected Boris Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, in a runoff.

In 1997 , responding to charges by Paula Jones of sexual harassment, President Bill Clinton denied all allegations in her lawsuit and asked a judge to dismiss the case.

In 2003 the U.S. placed a $25 million bounty on Saddam Hussein.

In 2005 a NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.

In 2007 Japan’s defense minister, Fumio Kyuma, resigned after drawing furious criticism for suggesting the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable. Also in 2007 The Alinghi team from Switzerland successfully defended sailing’s coveted America’s Cup, beating Emirates Team New Zealand 5-2. Also in 2007 saxophonist Boots Randolph (“Yakety Sax”) died in Nashville; he was 80.

In 2009 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, abruptly announced she would step down as governor more than a year before the end of her term.

In 2012 Andy Griffith, film and TV actor who portrayed a folksy sheriff of the fictional Mayberry in “The Andy Griffith Show” and later a lawyer in “Matlock” died; he was 86.

In 2013 Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was overthrown by the military after one year in office during the same kind of Arab Spring uprising that brought the Islamist leader to power.

In 2015 a plane powered by the sun’s rays broke the record for the world’s longest nonstop solo flight when it landed in Hawaii after a fiveday journey over the Pacific Ocean from Japan.

In 2016 actress Noel Neill, who played Superman’s love interest, Lois Lane, in both a movie serial and on TV, died in Tucson, Arizona; she was 95.