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Today in History

451
Roman and barbarian warriors halt Attila‘s army at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.
1397
The Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.
1756
Nearly 150 British soldiers are imprisoned in the ‘Black Hole’ cell of Calcutta. Most die.
1793
Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent.
1819
The paddle-wheel steamship Savannah arrives in Liverpool, England, after a voyage of 27 days and 11 hours–the first steamship to successfully cross the Atlantic.
1837
18-year-old Victoria is crowned Queen of England.
1863
President Abraham Lincoln admits West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state.
1898
On the way to the Philippines to fight the Spanish, the U.S. Navy seizes the island of Guam.
1901
Charlotte M. Manye of South Africa becomes the first native African to graduate from an American University.
1910
Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaims martial law and arrests hundreds.
1920
Race riots in Chicago, Illinois leave two dead and many wounded.
1923
France announces it will seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts.
1941
The U.S. Army Air Force is established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
1955
The AFL and CIO agree to combine names for a merged group.
1963
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a hot line between Washington and Moscow.
1964
General William Westmoreland succeeds General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam.
1967
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the American armed services.
1972
Nixon names General Creighton Abrams as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1999
NATO declares an official end to its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia.

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A fatal police shooting in Seattle is making headlines over the unusual circumstances: A woman who called 911 Sunday morning to report a burglary ended up being fatally shot by the responding officers, reports the Seattle Times.The woman has been identified as 30-year-old Charleena Lyles. Police say she brandished a knife at the two responding officers, and while family members don't dispute that, they say she was a petite woman with mental health issues.
They also say race was a factor: Lyles was black and the officers were white. Three of her children, ages 1, 4, and 11, were home at the time, and relatives say Lyles was several months pregnant with her fifth child.
One of her children has Down syndrome. When the call came in about 10am, Seattle police sent two officers to respond, instead of the usual single officer, because of a previous run-in with Lyles.
In fact, KIRO reports that Lyles had just been released from jail on June 14, having been incarcerated about a week on charges of harassment and obstructing a police officer.
Details about that incident weren't immediately clear. On Sunday, "officers were confronted by a 30-year-old woman armed with a knife," says the department. "Both officers fired their duty weapons." But family members, who say that Lyles had been struggling over the past year in particular with some kind of mental health trouble, maintain that deadly force wasn't necessary.
“Why couldn’t they have Tased her?" asks her sister. "They could have taken her down. I could have taken her down." The shooting is under investigation.

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