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Events

• Molly Pitcher took her mortally wounded husband’s place at a cannon at the Battle of Monmouth, NJ. As a recognition of her heroism, the valiant woman was commissioned a sergeant by General George Washington– 1778
• Cholera epidemic began in N.Y.C.– 1832
• Labor Day became an official U.S. holiday– 1894
• The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending WW I– 1919
• First Corvette car assembled– 1953
• Israel annexed East Jerusalem– 1967
• The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities– 1978
• 7.3 earthquake shook Landers, California– 1992
• A brief 4.5 earthquake struck the Midwest rattling windows and awakening sleeping residents from Wisconsin south to Missouri and from Indiana west to Iowa– 2004
• Pope Benedict XVI waived the five year waiting period for a cause for beatification to be opened and the official process for beatification of Pope John Paul II began in the Diocese of Rome– 2005