1487The Battle of Stoke ended the Wars of the Roses. 1858Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand." 1904Events in James Joyce's novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom. 1933President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act. 1963Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space. 1996Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff. 2004The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs. 
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