1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel

1940 Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention

1941 Former Dutch PM Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence

1941 German soldiers invade Crete

1941 Sgt. Alfred Clive HULME 23rd NZ Battalionwon the Victoria Cross for valor at various places in Greece

1942 US Navy first permitted black recruits to serve

1943 French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia

1944 US Communist Party dissolves

1945 Keith Miller scores 105 in the first Victory Test Cricket at Lord's

1948 The first use of Israeli Air Force & first war victory, defeating Syrian army

1954 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China

1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state

1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll

1956 Jordan government of Samir resigns

1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1959 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"

1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship

1959 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands

1961 Mauritania adopts constitution

1961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery AL

1963 Sukarno appointed President of Indonesia

1964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Frazier to qualify for US Olympic team

1965 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121

1965 Yorkshire all out for 23 vs Hampshire at Middlesbrough

1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1967 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)

1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam

1970 100,000 march in New York supporting US policies in Vietnam

1970 2 die in a NYC subway accident

1970 The Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK

1971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia

1972 "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 24 performances

1972 "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 6 performances

1972 Cameroon becomes a republic as their constitution is ratified

1972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified

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