- 1940 Bugs Bunny made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”
- 1960 Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
- 1974 The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Richard M. Nixon’s impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a “course of conduct” designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
- 1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- 1996 A pipe bomb exploded at a public park during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and injuring more than 100.
- 2003 Comedian Bob Hope died at age 100.
- 2003 Lance Armstrong won a record-tying fifth straight Tour de France title.
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