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Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.

• On this date:
• In 1533, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.
• In 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.
• In 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
• In 1862, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.
• In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pa., at age 77.
• In 1915, the T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published in "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse" in Chicago.
• In 1933, in a bizarre scene captured by news photographers, Lya Graf, a female circus dwarf, sat in the lap of financier J.P. Morgan Jr. during a recess of a Senate hearing on the stock market crash of 1929.
• In 1943, a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
• In 1958, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic.
• In 1967, the Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released.
• In 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost all of her life, died in Westport, Conn., at age 87.
• In 1980, Cable News Network made its debut.

Ten years ago: Leaders of the world's seven wealthiest nations and Russia pledged billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger on the opening day of their summit in Evian, France.
Five years ago: Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic, victory in Puerto Rico's presidential primary. Fire ripped through a back lot at Universal Studios. At least eight people suffocated at an overcrowded stadium in Monrovia during a soccer match between host Liberia and Gambia. NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took its first practice scoop of Martian soil. Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died in Paris at age 71.
One year ago: A judge in Sanford, Fla., revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned

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