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Title IX, which forbade sex-based discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal funding, was one of the Education Amendments of 1972 that President Richard Nixon signed into law on June 23, 1972.
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass became the first Black candidate to be nominated for president of the United States in 1888 when he got one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago.
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Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, two aviators, embarked on an eight-day, fifteen-hour round-the-world journey in 1931 from Roosevelt Field in New York.
The Taft-Hartley Act, which aimed to curtail organized labor’s power, was vetoed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, but the Senate and the House overrode it.
Gamal Abdel Nasser was chosen as Egypt’s president in 1956.
Earl Warren, Warren E. Burger’s predecessor, swore him in as chief justice of the United States in 1969.
In 1985, a bomb set by Sikh separatists on board an Air India Boeing 747 exploded, killing all 329 passengers on board when the aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean close to Ireland.
Mob boss John Gotti was found guilty of murder, racketeering, and other offenses in 1992 and given a life sentence. (Gotti would pass away in 2002 while incarcerated.)
Prime Minister David Cameron spearheaded the push to stay in the European Union, but he was overthrown when Britain decided to leave the bloc in 2016 following a fiercely contentious referendum campaign.
In 2020, the Louisville Police Department dismissed an officer who had been engaged in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor over three months prior, claiming that Brett Hankison had fired ten rounds into her residence with a blatant disregard for human life.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that Americans have the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, marking a significant expansion of gun rights.
- Author Richard Bach is 89.
- Computer scientist Vint Cerf is 82.
- Actor Bryan Brown is 78.
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 77.
- Musician Glenn Danzig is 70.
- Former American Idol judge Randy Jackson is 69.
- Actor Frances McDormand is 68.
- Golf Hall of Famer Colin Montgomerie is 62.
- Actor Selma Blair is 53.
- French soccer manager and former player Zinedine Zidane is 53.
- Actor Joel Edgerton is 51.
- Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is 48.
- Rapper Memphis Bleek is 47.
- Football Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson is 46.
- Actor Melissa Rauch ( The Big Bang Theory ) is 45.
