1830 – Oliver Wendell Holmes writes “Old Ironsides”
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1901 – President William McKinley is shot while attending a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, by 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley dies eight days later, the third American president assassinated.
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1942 – World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
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1861 – Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri, due to pro-secession sentiment which surged throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
