1950:Ben Hogan makes an unmistakable return to professional golf after recuperating from injuries sustained in a near-fatal car accident 16 months earlier. Hogan wins the U.S. Open, beating Lloyd Mangrum by four strokes and George Fazio by six in an 18-hole playoff at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.
1963: Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolates himself in Saigon, in protest of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's repressive and religiously intolerant policies toward Buddhists. The self-immolation is captured in an iconic photograph by Malcolm Browne.
2001: Timothy McVeigh becomes the first federal prisoner executed in nearly 40 years, when he is killed by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., for orchestrating the deaths of 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1963: Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolates himself in Saigon, in protest of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's repressive and religiously intolerant policies toward Buddhists. The self-immolation is captured in an iconic photograph by Malcolm Browne.
2001: Timothy McVeigh becomes the first federal prisoner executed in nearly 40 years, when he is killed by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., for orchestrating the deaths of 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1776:Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, et. al. appointed by Continental Congress to draft Declaration of Independence.
1509:Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon
1509:Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon
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