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Today in History;

455 Rome is sacked by the Vandal army.

1815 Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny.

1858 Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

1864 The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish.

1907 The Russian czar dissolves the Duma in St. Petersburg.

1910 The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

1925 France accepts a German proposal for a security pact.

1932 The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.

1935 President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives.

1940 French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany.

1952 Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States.

1955 The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959

1961 Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.

1971 An El Greco sketch, "The Immaculate Conception," stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI.

1977 Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.