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• 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
• 1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
• 1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
• 1861 - British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
• 1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
• 1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• 1912 - The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
• 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
• 1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.
• 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
• 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
• 1991 - World Wide Web is announced to the world by CERN bringing the Internet to the public.
• 1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

[edit] Births

• 1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)

[edit] Deaths

• 1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
• 1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1993 - Ben Klassen, founder of the Church of the Creator. (b. 1918)