1938 Find headless Mad Butcher victim Cleveland

1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts

1942 James H Doolittle bombed Tokyo & other Japanese cities

1942 Tor Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup

1944 Gerard Coté of Canada wins the 48th Boston Marathon won in 2 31 50.4.

1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops

1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts)

1948 Lockhead Hudson aircraft crashes at Lae, Papua New Guniea, claiming 37 lives.

1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth

1950 First transatlantic jet passenger trip

1950 Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th

1952 A Schmitt discovers asteroid #1614 Goldschmidt

1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power in Egypt

1955 Albert Einstein developer of relativity theory, dies

1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)

1957 Asteroid #2307 discovered

1959 Montreal Canadiens beat Tor Maple Leafs 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup

1960 French President Charles de Gaulle arrives in Ottawa for four-day visit.

1963 Henrietta Kreis 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death

1963 Tor Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup

1964 Ben Hecht playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71

1966 Bill Russell became first black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)

1967 Manitoba imposes 5% sales tax, effective June 1.

1968 SF's Old Hall of Justice demolished

1971 Howard Hughes billionaire, dies

1971 Kingston penitentiary inmates stage four-day riot, holding five guards hostage; two convicts murdered, 11 injured.

1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1902 Shaposhnikov, #2192 Pyatigoriya & #2250 Stalingrad

1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"

1976 Percy Julian holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78

1977 Jerome Drayton wins the 81st Boston Marathon in in 2 14 46; the eighth Canadian to win the Marathon.

1977 The Hall Commission Report on Grain Handling and Transportation is published. This recommends limited branch line abandonment on the prairies.

1978 US Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panam

1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV

1980 Zimbabwe's (Rhodesia) formal independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act

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