1915 SS Guernsey, went ashore on at Cap de la Hague Guernsey with a loss of seven crew while outward bound from Guernsey to Southampton.

1916 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #857 Glasenappia

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1922 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #977 Philippa

1924 4 planes leave Seattle on first successful around-the-world flight

1930 First transcontinental glider tow completed

1931 First Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape

1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses &sinks 371 more

1936 Tornado, kills 203 &injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia

1939 US &UK agree on joint control of Canton &Enderbury Is (Pacific)

1941 German army invades Yugoslovia and Greece.

1941 Italian-held Addis Ababa capitulates to British &Ethiopian forces

1942 General Andrew G.L. (Andy) McNaughton forms the First Canadian Army in Britain with five divisions, two armored brigades, and 3 other divisions slated for home defence.

1942 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2249 Yamamoto

1943 British &US army link up in Africa during WW II

1945 First heavy kamikaze attack on ships at Okinawa.

1945 Most of the Jewish prisoners remaining at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany are forced out on death marches.

1952 Sam Snead wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament

1957 NYC ends trolley car service

1958 Arnold Palmer wins first major golf tournament-the Masters

1961 USS Lake Champlain brings oxygen to aid stricken passenger of British liner Queen of Bermuda.

1965 In Dar es Salaam Tanzania Ottawa starts program to equip and train air force of Tanzania.

1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") first coml geosynchronous comm satellite

1966 Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 announces plans to promote bilingualism in the public service. (very expensive)

1966 Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka &India

1967 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1804 Chebotarev

1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution

1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)

1968 HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas

1968 USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam

1972 Bomb explosion at the Cuban Trade Commission in Montreal kills one person.

1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter &Saturn

1974 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"

1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo

1975 Chiang Kai-Shek Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87

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