1934 Paul Von Hindenburg dies at 86, Hitler takes over presidency

1934 The first airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it

1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour

1936 Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games

1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers

1940 First expulsion of Jews from Cracow.

1940 HMS OSWALD,sunk 10 miles SE of Cape Spartivento, SW Italy in Ionian Sea - rammed by Italian destroyer 'Vivaldi'.

1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia

1943 PT-109 rammed & sunk, the future Pres. Kennedy suffers a back is injury

1943 Race riot in Harlem New York city

1944 Poland - Warsaw Revolt Begins

1946 Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

1950 King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes king

1950 Territory of Guam created

1953 Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland

1957 First commercial building heated by Sun - in Albuquerque New Mexico

1957 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")

1958 US first class postage up to $0.04 - was $0.03 for 26 years

1958 US submarine USS Nautilus submerges under the Arctic ice cap

1960 Chubby Checker brings out "The Twist"

1961 Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club

1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m

1963 The Beatles Book is sold out on its first day of sale

1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" single goes to #1 spot on the charts

1964 Jack Kirkwood actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69

1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin and so it begins in earnest

1964 Race riot in Jersey City NJ

1966 The Texas Tower Massacre - University student killed 10 and wounded 31.

1967 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5

1972 Brian Cole rocker with the Association, dies of heroin OD at 28

1972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London

1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations

1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway

1979 Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32

1980 Gerd Wessig of East Germany set the high jump record

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