1938 A world record for the indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)

1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label

1941 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Göring in Berlin

1942 First combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1943 Bomb falls into London shelter; 173 die

1943 F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet", premieres in New York NY

1943 US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea

1944 The first performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony

1945 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter

1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

1945 Roermond/Venlo Netherlands, freed

1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor

1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall

1946 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Gretchen Merrill

1946 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button

1952 Puerto Rico approves their first self written constitution

1953 A Canadian Pacific Comet jet crashes with 11 fatalities; world's first commercial jet crash.

1953 British Comet jet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed

1955 A truck driver from Tupelo, MS made his first TV appearance. Elvis Aron Presley was featured on "Louisiana Hayride".

1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns

1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in New York

1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)

1957 World Ice Dance Championship in Colorado Springs won by June Markham & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)

1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq

1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis

1959 First US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched

1959 The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park.

1960 Ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")

1961 King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco

1962 British Antarctic Territory is formed

1963 Senegal adopts constitution

1965 Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music".

1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1

1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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