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1858

A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable. 1888

T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales. 1913

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus. 1948

Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth died at age 53. 1954

Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc. 1956

Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.1960

Britain granted independence to Cyprus. 1977

, singer Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.1987

Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind. 1988

Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket. 2000

Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president. 2003

Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Saudi Arabia. 2007

Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3-1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks. (He was sentenced to 17 years, four months in prison.) 2008

Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second for his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, tying Mark Spitz's 1972 record. 2008

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi were married at their Beverly Hills, Calif., home.2010 China eclipsed Japan as the world's second biggest economy after three decades of blistering growth.