In 1654, Louis the 14th was crowned King of France in Rheims.
In 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
In 1848, French post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin was born in Paris.
In 1864, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president at his party's convention in Baltimore.
In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
In 1939, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, New York, from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
In 1948, the Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes.
In 1967, author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit, died in New York.
In 1981, Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
In 1994, 12-year-old Vicki Van Meter of Meadville, Pennsylvania, completed a trans-Atlantic flight, landing in Glasgow, Scotland; she is believed to be the youngest girl to pilot a plane to Europe.
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