This Day in History.....

1523, Gustav Vasa becomes king of Sweden. 1641, Spain loses Portugal. 1674, Sivaji crowns himself King of India. 1813, The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario. 1862, The city of Memphis surrenders to the Union navy after an intense naval engagement on the Mississippi River. 1865, Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill dies from a wound received while escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky. 1918, U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood. 1924, The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts. 1930, Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time. 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission. 1941, The U.S. government authorizes the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports. 1944, D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France. 1961, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies. 1966, African American James Meridith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks. 1982, Israel invades southern Lebanon. 1985, The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele is located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil.

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