1944 Hanna Senesz, a Jewish girl originally from Hungary, who had immigrated to Palestine, parachutes behind German lines to connect with Hungarian and Slovak resistance fighters. Caught on the Hungarian border, she dies knowing that her mission has given strength to those suffering in the camps.

1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor

1946 Henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV

1953 J Churms discovers asteroid #2025

1955 Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1

1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"

1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for the first time Beatles record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums

1965 6 RAR official birthday

1966 Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi

1966 Black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded as he walks along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.

1966 Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed

1966 James Meredith wounded by white sniper

1967 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin

1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.

1969 Battle of Binh Ba, Vietnam

1970 The Black Watch of Canada regiment is retired from battle order(more history gone)

1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die

1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station

1972 David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"

1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)

1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London

1973 Canada bans US oil tankers from Canadian waters to reach planned oil refinery at Eastport, Maine.

1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market

1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established

1977 Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws

1978 A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2199 Klet & #3339

1978 California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, an initiative calling for major property tax cuts.

1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%

1980 Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbeldon title

1982 Israel invades southern Lebanon, site of Palestinian guerrilla

1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India

1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed

1985 Brazilian authorities exhume the body later identified as Dr. Josef Mengele, the one responsible for many of the Nazi Holocaust atrocities during World War II.

1985 Chris Evert wins a grand slam title for 13th straight year (French)

1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station

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