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1568: Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.

1607: Jamestown founded.

1846: The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.

1938: Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans’s jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.

1940: Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

1958: VP Nixon attacked in Venezuela.

1973: Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.

1981: Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Rome.

1985: MOVE cult building fire in Philadelphia.

Other birthdays:

1842: Arthur Sullivan

1882: Georges Braque

1907: Daphne Du Maurier

1914: Joe Louis

1926: Bea Arthur

1927: Clive Barnes

1930: Mike Gravel

1931: Jim Jones

1939: Harvey Keitel

1941: Ritchie Valens

1950: Stevie Wonder and Peter Gabriel

All in all, a pretty dull day in history.