On this day :
1974 Aaron sets new home run record, 1778 John Adams arrives in Paris to replace Silas Deane, 1979 Waltrip beats Petty in lastlap thriller, 1864 Confederates rout Union at Battle of Mansfield, 1950 McCarthy publicly attacks Owen Lattimore, 2005 Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty, 1916 California road race kills five, 1935 WPA established by Congress, 1953 Kenyatta jailed for Mau Mau uprising, 2013 Margaret Thatcher Britains first female prime minister dies, 563 Buddhists celebrate birth of Gautama Buddha, 1990 Twin Peaks premieres on ABC, 1955 Barbara Kingsolver is born, 1994 Kurt Cobain is found dead, 1842 Elizabeth Bacon Custer is born in Michigan, 1935 FDR signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, 1974 Aaron hits his 715th home run, 1972 North Vietnamese forces open a third front, 1975 Weyand reports to Congress, 1904 Britain and France sign Entente Cordiale, 1944 Russians attack Germans in drive to expel them from Crimea, 1945 Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged, 1981 Omar Bradley dies,
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