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This Date in History (July 6th)

1944 – Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people.

2004 – Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry chose former rival Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina to be his running mate.

2005 – New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA operative’s name. (She was jailed for 85 days before agreeing to testify.)