1940 Battle of Britian began

1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA

1943 Naval gunfire help Allied troops land on Sicily. It was first extensive use of LST's and smaller landing craft to deliver heavy equipment over the beach.

1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II

1945 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August.

1945 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies

1946 Canada's first drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton, Ontario (those were the days)

1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China

1949 The first practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh

1950 "Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV

1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong

1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1609 Brenda

1958 In the Lituya Bay, Alaska an 8.3 event caused amassive rockslide at the head of Lituya Bay caused water to surge about 530 meters, generating a "gravity wave" that swept out of the bay. A fishing boat anchored in Anchorage Cove was carried in front of the largest wave crest, and those onboard estimated they cleared La Chaussee Spit (at the mouth of Lituya Bay) by 30 meters or more. Two people on another fishing boat disappeared after being caught in the huge wave

1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia

1962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched

1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks

1965 Rolling Stones score their first #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"

1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon

1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created

1969 NL votes to split into 2 divisions

1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)

1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India

1973 Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)

1977 Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41

1978 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484

1978 Military coup in Mauritania

1979 Arthur Fiedler the conductor of The Boston Pops Orchestra died

1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen

1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp

1981 CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)

1982 In Vancouver, BC, three $2 ticket bettors win $579,129 apiece at the races in Exhibition Park. (they call it the sport of kings?)

1982 Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze

1983 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751

1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke

1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand

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