1 of three | President Barack Obama (L) claps with Louvon Harris (C) and Betty Byrd Boatner, the sisters of James Byrd, Jr., who was a sufferer of a hate crime, as he delivers remarks on the passing of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, on the White Home in Washington on October 28, 2009. On June 7, 1998, three white supremacists killed Byrd by dragging him for 3 miles behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas. File Photograph by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photograph
On this date in historical past:
In 1776, the Lee Decision, which led to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was launched within the Continental Congress.
In 1864, Republican delegates assembly in Baltimore nominated Abraham Lincoln for his second time period as president. His operating mate was Andrew Johnson.
In 1942, Japanese forces occupied Attu and Kiska within the Aleutian Islands. U.S. forces retook the islands one yr later.
In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom struck down a Connecticut legislation banning contraceptives.
In 1967, Israeli troops captured Jerusalem in the course of the Six-Day Struggle.
Far-right Israeli supporters wave nationwide flags on Jerusalem Day to have a good time Israel’s victory within the Six-Day Struggle exterior the Damascus Gate within the Previous Metropolis of Jerusalem, Might 13. Photograph by Debbie Hill/UPI
In 1975, the primary videocassette recorder went on sale to the general public.
In 1983, in the future after Nicaragua expelled three U.S. diplomats, the Reagan administration ordered six Nicaraguan consulates closed and expelled six of the nation’s diplomats.
In 1990, South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted a 4-year-old nationwide state of emergency in all however the strife-torn Indian Ocean province of Natal.
In 1998, three white supremacists killed James Byrd Jr. by dragging him for 3 miles behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas. The three males have been convicted of homicide — one was executed in 2011, one other is on loss of life row and a 3rd was sentenced to life in jail. The lynching spurred a Texas hate crime legislation in addition to the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
In 2002, U.S. missionary Martin Burnham, captured within the Philippines by a Muslim group greater than a yr earlier, was fatally shot throughout a rescue try.
In 2008, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., formally ended her marketing campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.
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In 2013, an arsonist set fireplace to a bus in Xiamen, China, killing 42 individuals and injuring 30 others.
In 2013, six individuals have been killed and 5 injured in a Santa Monica, Calif., taking pictures rampage that began at a non-public house and ended on a school campus. The useless included the 23-year-old gunman, who was shot by police.
In 2021, two specific trains collided in southern Pakistan, killing at the least 40 individuals and injuring dozens.
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