TODAY IN HISTORY

1775

Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1863

The three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops failed to breach Union positions during an assault known as Pickett’s Charge.

1913

During a 50th anniversary reunion at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Civil War veterans re-enacted Pickett’s Charge, which ended with embraces and handshakes between the former enemies.

2003

The U.S. put a $25 million bounty on Saddam Hussein, and $15 million apiece for his two sons.

2013

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