1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference

1915 Lt. Frederick William Campbell (1st Cdn. Infantry Batt.) winds the Victoria Cross at Givenchy France

1915 US government mints first $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo

1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania

1918 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins)

1919 Alcok & Brown land the first nonstop Atlantic flight in Ireland

1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile

1925 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda

1929 The first time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch

1933 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna

1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated

1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1322 Coppernicus

1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba

1940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans

1940 Germans occupy Paris, capture Havre, assault Maginot line.

1944 First B-29 test-raid on Japanese industrial cities is deemed satisfactory.

1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific

1950 Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Parana

1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory

1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the first time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner

1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)

1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman

1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes

1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill

1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral

1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV

1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League

1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die

1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC

1977 Spain's first free elections since 1936

1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who becomes Queen Noor.

1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days

1979 The first space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds

1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game

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