Riot police swept away two encampments of supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, sparking running street battles. Ten years ago: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators kicked off their first substantive round of peace talks in nearly five years, meeting at an undisclosed location in Jerusalem. In 2020, India’s coronavirus death toll overtook Britain’s to become the fourth-highest in the world after another single-day record increase in cases. In 2009, Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, 60, convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars. (McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001.) In 1997, an unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

(However, Faulkner quit the school less than a week later, citing the stress of her court fight, and her isolation among the male cadets.) In 1995, Shannon Faulkner officially became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina’s state military college. In 1994, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” was captured by French agents in Sudan. In 1980, actor-model Dorothy Stratten was shot to death at age 20 by her estranged husband and manager, Paul Snider, who then killed himself. In 1953, David Nelson Mullany created the first working prototype of the Wiffle Ball. In 1948, the Summer Olympics in London, the first held since 1936, ended. In 1947, Pakistan became independent of British rule. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

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