1718 France declares war on Spain

1788 Connecticut becomes an American state

1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

1969 The supersonic airliner, Concorde, makes its first test flight

1908 The birth of Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist

1913 The birth of Richard Nixon, Former (37th) US President

1941 The birth of Joan Baez, American peace activist

2005 The same storm which pounded the US earlier in the month hit England and Scandinavia, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.

2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian election.2006 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since jun 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90.

2007 War in Somalia: U.S. planes conduct air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists.

2007 An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.

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