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This day in history
Issue date: 7/9/08 Section: News
1776 Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.
1889 The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1919 President Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.
1950 President Truman named Gen. Douglas MacArthur commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
1958 President Eisenhower began a visit to Canada, where he conferred with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and addressed the Canadian Parliament.
1994 Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.
1998 A federal bankruptcy judge announced a tentative settlement under which an estimated 170,000 women who said silicone breast implants had made them sick would get $3.2 billion from Dow Corning Corp
.
2007 Roger Federer won his fifth straight Wimbledon tennis championship, beating Rafael Nadal 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2.
- Compiled by The Associated Press
1889 The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1919 President Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.
1950 President Truman named Gen. Douglas MacArthur commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
1958 President Eisenhower began a visit to Canada, where he conferred with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and addressed the Canadian Parliament.
1994 Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.
1998 A federal bankruptcy judge announced a tentative settlement under which an estimated 170,000 women who said silicone breast implants had made them sick would get $3.2 billion from Dow Corning Corp
.
2007 Roger Federer won his fifth straight Wimbledon tennis championship, beating Rafael Nadal 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2.
- Compiled by The Associated Press
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