1934 John Dillinger shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1359 Prieska & #1360 Tarka

1935 Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia

1937 Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1938 Opening of Australian National War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France

1939 The first black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)

1942 Beginning of Warsaw ghetto "Aktion." 6,000 to 7,000 a day are deported to Treblinka.

1942 Gas rationing begins along the Atlantic coast of the US to help the American war effort during WWII.

1942 Start of battle of the Kokoda Track, Papua

1943 Allied forces captured Palermo, Sicily

1943 General George S. Patton leads American troops to capture Palermo, Sicily, during WWII.

1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation

1946 90 people die when Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

1946 Estelle Bennett, rocker (The Ronettes)

1947 -8ø F (-13ø C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record)

1950 King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium

1952 Polish constitution adopted (National Day)

1953 Cy Kendall actor (Mysteries of Chinatown), dies at 55

1953 U.S. ships laid down heavy barrage to support UN troops in Korea

1955 Joseph Foley actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45

1955 The first VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon

1962 The first US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off

1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavywieght championship

1963 The Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"

1964 Four Navy Divers (LCDR Robert Thompson, MC; Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson, Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning) submerge in Sealab I for 10 days at a depth of 192 feet, 39 miles off Hamilton, Bermuda. They surfaced on 31 July 1964.

1964 Steve Ballesteros wins the Britsh Golf Open

1967 Carl Sandburg poet dies at 89

1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as openoing act of the Monkees' tour

1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit

1969 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite

1972 27.53 cm (10.84") of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)

1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus

1974 Evacuees from the coup on Cyprus arrive on board Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. Operation ended on 24 July.

1975 House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E Lee

1975 The House of Representatives approves a measure to restore the US citizenship of Robert E. Lee, Confederate General during the Civil War.

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