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1519 Ferdinand Magellan began his expedition to sail around the world.

1596 The city of Monterrey in Mexico was founded.

1633 Galileo goes on trial for teaching the Earth orbits the sun.

1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science was founded.

1854 The Battle of Alma began the Crimean War.

1878 Writer Upton Sinclair was born.

1880 American murderess Louise Peete was born.

1881 President Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated.

1885 Jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton was born.

1914 Actor Kenneth More was born.

1917 Basketball coach Red Auerbach, actor Fernando Rey were born.

1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

1962 James Meredith is barred from becoming the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

1967 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II is launched.

1973 Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in a tennis match billed as the Battle of the Sexes; singer Jim Croce was killed in a plane crash.

1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted into the United Nations.

1979 Lee Iacocca is named president of Chrysler Corporation.

1998 Baltimore third baseman Carl Ripken Jr. chooses to sit out a game against the New York Yankees, ending his record streak of consecutive games played at 2,632.

1999 Lawrence Russell Brewer was convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper.

2005 Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died.