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• On this date:
• In 1608, the city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
• In 1775, Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
• In 1863, the three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
• In 1890, Idaho became the 43rd state of the Union.
• In 1898, the U.S. Navy defeated a Spanish fleet outside Santiago Bay in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
• In 1944, during World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
• In 1950, the first carrier strikes of the Korean War took place as the USS Valley Forge and the HMS Triumph sent fighter planes against North Korean targets.
• In 1971, singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.
• In 1979, Dan White, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mahs-KOH'-nee) and Supervisor Harvey Milk, was sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in prison. (He ended up serving 5 years.)
• In 1987, British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic, jumping into the sea as their craft went down off the Scottish coast.
• In 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
• In 1992, the first U.S. Air Force C-130 from Operation Provide Promise arrived in the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
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• Ten years ago: Jean-Marie Messier (zhan muh-REE' meh-see-AY'), chairman of Vivendi Universal, was formally removed from his post and replaced by Jean-Rene Fourtou (zhawn reh-NAY' fohr-TOO') of the pharmaceutical company Aventis.
• Five years ago: President George W. Bush refused to rule out an eventual pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after already commuting his prison sentence in the CIA leak case (as it turned out, Bush didn't pardon Libby). Japan's defense minister (Fumio Kyuma) resigned after drawing furious criticism for suggesting the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable. The Alinghi team from Switzerland succeeded in defending sailing's coveted America's Cup, beating Emirates Team New Zealand 5-2. Saxophonist Boots Randolph ("Yakety Sax") died in

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