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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1536 The authority of the pope was declared void in England.
1872 Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.
1927 Ty Cobb hit safely for the 4,000th time in his major league baseball career.
1932 The United States and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
On July 18, 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
1940 The Democratic national convention in Chicago nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.
1944 Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.
1969 A car driven by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
1984 A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.
1984 Walter F. Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco.
1989 Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by an obsessed fan. The killing prompted California in 1990 to pass the nation's first anti-stalking law.
1998 A 23-foot tidal wave along the coast of Papua New Guinea killed nearly 3,000 people.
1999 David Cone of the New York Yankees pitched the 14th perfect game in major league history in a game against the Montreal Expos.
2003 Basketball star Kobe Bryant was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman at a Colorado spa. (The charge was later dropped because the woman did not want to go ahead with a trial.)
2003 The body of British scientist David Kelly, a weapons expert at the center of a storm over British intelligence on Iraq, was found. He had committed suicide.
NY Yankees manager Joe Torre turns 65 today
87 Nelson Mandela
Former South African president
84 John Glenn
Astronaut; former U.S. senator, D-Ohio
66 Dion DiMucci
Singer (Dion and the Belmonts)
65 James Brolin
Actor
43 Jack Irons
Rock musician (Pearl Jam)
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