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1356 During the Hundred Years War, English forces won the Battle of Poitiers and captured King Jean II of France.

1676 Forces led by Nathaniel Bacon burn Jamestown to the ground during Bacon's Rebellion.

1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead during the Salem witch trials.

1796 George Washington's Farewell Address was published.

1863 The Civil War's three-day Battle of Chickamauga begins.

1870 Prussians launch the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

1881 President William Garfield died from an assassin's bullet after only four months in office.

1893 New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage.

1900 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nevada, the first robbery they would commit together.

1905 Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski was born in Waco.

1907 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was born.

1911 William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, was born.

1913 Actress Frances Farmer was born.

1931 Singer Brook Benton was born.

1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindberg Jr.; Beatles manager Brian Epstein was born.

1941 Singer Mama Cass Elliot was born.

1952 Charlie Chaplin is barred from re-entering the United States.

1957 The United States conducts its first underground nuclear bomb test.

1970 The television series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" made its debut.

1973 Influential singer-songwriter Gram Parsons died.

1985 An earthquake struck Mexico City killing at least 9,000 people.

1995 Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's manifesto was published in The Washington Post and The New York Times.