1944 First V-1 rocket reaches London.

1944 Piolet Off. Andrew C. Mynarski (Royal Cdn. Air Force) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France

1952 In British Columbia. W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election; start of 20 years of power for the Socreds.

1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)

1961 The DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.

1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m

1963 Civil rights leader Medger Evers is shot and killed in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home.

1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment

1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"

1965 The Beatles are awarded the MBE

1967 Israel wins 6 day war

1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)

1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus

1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch

1971 Tricia Nixon &Edward F Cox marry at White House

1976 The Navy phased out the last C-117 (Douglas DC-3), perhaps the most famous transport plane of all time. The last C-117 was flown from Pensacola to Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, the boneyard for obsolete military aircraft

1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library

1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life

1978 In Japan a 7.5 quake struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. The shock was centered about 909 kilometers east of Sendai

1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min

1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests

1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike

1982 A rally against the nuclear arms race brings 800,000 demonstrators into New York's Central Park

1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency

1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids

1990 In Winnipeg Manitoba, Elijah Harper uses rules of procedure to block the introduction of the resolution ratifying the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba legislature

1665 England establishes New York city as the name for the city they've just acquired which was formerly known as new Amsterdam

1898 The Phillipines declare independence from Spain.

1922 Insulin patented

1944 The first V1 rocket falls on England during World War 2

1519 The birth of Cosimo de Medici, Florencian monarch

1890 The birth of Egon Schiele, German painter

1924 The birth of George Bush, Former (41st) US President

1929 The birth of Anne Frank, Dutch wartime diarist2009 Protes in Iran following e presidential election.

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