1858Preamble to the presidency
Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
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1487
The Battle of Stoke ended the Wars of the Roses.
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1904
Events in James Joyce's novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.
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1933
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act.
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1963
Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space.
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1996
Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.
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2004
The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs.
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