1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July first

1992 "Man of La Mancha" with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater

1792 "La Marseillaise", which later becomes the French national anthem, composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle

1800 Library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation

1953 British PM Winston Churchill knighted by the Queen

1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

1961 General de Gaulle of France order a blockade of Algeria

1970 China becomes the 5th nation to launch a satellite into orbit

1981 IBM-PC introduced

1985 Israel begins the third stage of its troop removal from Lebanon

1934 The birth of Shirley MacLaine, American actress

1942 The birth of Barbra Streisland, American singer and actress

2005 Death of Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)

2006 Three explosions in a tourist section of Dahab, Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.

2007 Abortion is legalized in Mexico City.

2007 Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the constellation Libra.

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