Also on this date
the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force deployed to France during World War I landed in St. Nazaire.
In 1917,
In 1963,
President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his speech expressing solidarity with the city’s residents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a Berliner”).
In 1974,
the supermarket price scanner made its debut in Troy, Ohio, as a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing 67 cents and bearing a Uniform Product Code (UPC) was scanned by a Marsh Supermarket cashier.
In 1977,
Elvis Presley performed his last concert in Indianapolis.
the Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
In 1996,
In 1997,
the first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling, was published in the United Kingdom. (It was later released in the United States under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”)
In 2013,
the U.S. Supreme Court gave the nation’s legally married gay couples equal federal footing with all other married Americans and also cleared the way for samesex marriages to resume in California.
Group of Eight leaders meeting in Canada found common ground on foreign policy, condemning North Korea for the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship and endorsing a five-year exit timetable for Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives visited Charleston, South Carolina, where nine black churchgoers had been shot to death; Obama eulogized one of the victims, Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was the pastor of the church and also a state senator.
Meeting for the first time on the debate stage in the 2020 presidential campaign, 10 Democrats railed against an economy and an administration that they argued exist only for the rich. (Ten other Democrats would meet in a separate debate a day later.)
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