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No coffee?? Thats insane!
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1694 The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1789 Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, the forerunner of the State Department.
1794 French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and placed under arrest; he was executed the following day.
1861 Union Gen. George B. McClellan was put in command of the Army of the Potomac.
1866 After two failures, Cyrus W. Field succeeded in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.
1940 Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon ''A Wild Hare.''
On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
1960 Vice President Richard Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
1967 In the wake of urban rioting, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence. The same day, black militant H. Rap Brown said violence was ''as American as cherry pie.''
1974 The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Richard Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a ''course of conduct'' designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
1980 The deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.
1992 Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball court during practice; he was 27.
1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1996 A pipe bomb exploded at a public park during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and injuring more than 100.
2003 Comedian Bob Hope died in Toluca Lake, Calif., at age 100.
2003 Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight title in the Tour de France.
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez turns 30 years old today.
74 Jerry Van Dyke
Actor
63 John Pleshette
Actor
61 Bobbie Gentry
Singer
57 Betty Thomas
Actress-director
57 Peggy Fleming
Figure skater
56 Maureen McGovern
Singer
53 Roxanne Hart
Actress
48 Bill Engvall
Comedian (''Blue Collar TV'')
38 Juliana Hatfield
Rock singer
33 Maya Rudolph
Comedian (''Saturday Night Live'')
28 Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Actor
Have a great rest of the day all :D
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