Highlights in history
• In 1799, French soldiers in Egypt discovered the Rosetta Stone, which proved instrumental in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
• In 1870, Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
• In 1913, Augustus Bacon, D-GA., became the first person elected to the U.S. Senate under the terms of the recently ratified 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for popular election of senators.
• In 1975, three American astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit.
• In 1976, a 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, California, by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. (The captives escaped unharmed; the kidnappers were caught.)
• In 1985, a visibly gaunt Rock Hudson appeared at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).
• In 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace, 50, was shot dead outside his Miami Beach home; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan, 27, was found dead eight days later, a suicide. (Investigators believed Cunanan killed four other people before Versace in a crosscountry rampage that began the previous March.)
• In 2002, John Walker Lindh, an American who’d fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, to two felonies in a deal sparing him life in prison.
Birthdays
• Actor Patrick Wayne is 81 • Rhythm-and-blues singer Millie Jackson is 76
• Singer Linda Ronstadt is 74 • Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post, is 70
• Rock singer-musician David Pack is 68
• Rock musician Joe Satriani is 64
• Actor Willie Aames is 60
• Actress Nielsen is 57
• Rock musician Jason Bonham is 54
• Actor Scott Foley is 48
• Rapper Jim Jones is 44
• Actor Travis Fimmel is 41 • Rhythm-and-blues Thornton (Divine) is 41
• Actor Taylor Kinney is 39 • Actor-singer Tristan “Mack” Wilds is 31
• Actress Medalion Rahimi is 28 • Actor Iain Armitage (TV: “Big Little Lies” “Young Sheldon”) is 12
Source: Associated Press
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