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Britain’s King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in Washington, D.C., where they were received at the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1939,
In 1966,
a merger was announced between the National and American Football Leagues, to take effect in 1970.
In 1972,
during the Vietnam War, an Associated Press photographer took a picture of a screaming 9year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, as she ran naked and severely burned from the scene of a South Vietnamese napalm attack.
In 1978,
a jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled the “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.
In 1998,
the National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston to be its president.
In 2009,
North Korea’s highest court sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years’ hard labor for trespassing and “hostile acts.” (The women were pardoned in early August 2009 after a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton.)
In 2018,
celebrity chef, author and CNN host Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in eastern France in what authorities determined was a suicide.
In high-profile Republican state primaries, Meg Whitman won the nomination for California governor while Carly Fiorina got the nod to oppose Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer; in Nevada, Sharron Angle won the right to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (All three ended up losing their respective contests.)
The NCAA approved multiple rule changes to men’s basketball for the 2015-’16 season, including a 30-second shot clock and fewer timeouts for each team.
Eighth-seeded Ash Barty won her first major tennis championship, beating Marketa Vondrousova in the French Open women’s final.
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