1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business

1942 The Battle of Midway begins

1944 5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies

1944 The first submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505

1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed

1949 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950

1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m

1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public

1957 First commercial coal pipeline placed in operation

1963 First transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio

1964 Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark

1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"

1967 Emmy Awards-Monkees win for comedy series

1970 Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard

1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks

1976 Canada declares 370 km (200 nautical mile) offshore fisheries jurisdiction zone, effective Jan 1, 1977

1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2

1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2494 Inge, #2797 Teucer, #2870 Haupt, #3169 Ostro & #3726

1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon

1984 Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"

1985 STS 51-G vehicle moves to the launch pad

1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law

1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court

1989 Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping

1989 Eastern Europe's first somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland

1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary

1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy

1990 NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx areacode 917

2000 In Southern Sumatera, Indonesia a 7.9 quake resulted in at least 103 people killed, 2,174 injured, extensive damage (VI) and landslides in the Bengkulu area; minor injuries and damage on Enggano

1903 A new element, Polonium, discovered by Curie husband and wife team

1938 Sigmund Freud leaves Austria for refuge in London

1942 Japanese suffer heavy losses at Midway Island

1970 Tonga independence

1738 The birth of King George III

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