1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees

1949 USSR explodes its first atomic bomb

1950 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52

1953 USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb

1954 SF International Airport (SFO) opens

1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957

1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights

1957 US Senator Strom Thurmond talks nonstop for 24 hours, 18 minutes to filibuster a civil rights bill.

1958 Air Force Academy opens

1964 USS Boxer and two LSD's arrived off the coast of Hispaniola to give medical aid and helicopter evacuation services to people in areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic badly damaged by Hurricane Cleo.

1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released

1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5

1965 Gemini V, with astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad and Gordon Cooper aboard, splashes down after eight days of orbiting the Earth.

1966 Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF)

1966 The Beatles make what would utimately be their last live performance with a show at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.

1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"

1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)

1971 Hank Aaron becomes the first player in baseball's National League to drive in 100+ runs in 11 seasons.

1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky

1977 Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobb's record by stealing the 893rd base of his baseball career.

1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission

1987 Academy Award-winner Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, AZ, at age 63.

1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir

1989 Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico a 6.7 quake was felt along the coast of Jalisco. Also felt at Guadalajara and in the southern part of the Mexico City area

1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq

1991 John F Kennedy Jr wins his first law case

1991 The Communist Party ends 75 years of power in the USSR.

1994 The Windsor and Hantsport Railway commences operation in Nova Scotia.

1996 A Russian plane carrying coal miners to work at a remote arctic island smashes into a mountain top, killing all 41 people aboard in the worst air disaster on Norwegian soil

1997 DVD's outsell Laserdiscs in the U.S.

1997 The Japanese Supreme Court rules the government acted illegally when it deleted from a history textbook references to Japan's deadly experiments on Chinese during World War II.

1998 A Cuban airplane bursts into flames and crashes during takeoff from Quito, Ecuador, killing 79 people.

1842 Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain

1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents the first motor cycle

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