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1794
Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.
1884
Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman from Lancaster, Ohio, refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
1933
The United States went off the gold standard.
1947
Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as The Marshall Plan.
1950
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars.
1963
Britain's Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned after acknowledging an affair with call girl Christine Keeler, who was involved with a Soviet spy, and lying to Parliament about it.
1967
War erupted in the Mideast as Israel raided military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
1968
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary; gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested.
1981
The Centers for Disease Control reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.
1986
Federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. (Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.)
1997
Former CIA officer Harold J. Nicholson was sentenced to 23½ years in prison for selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War.
2006
More than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of President George W. Bush’'s crackdown on illegal immigration.
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