1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour

1937 First airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York

1940 German troops conquer Boulogne

1940 Golden Gate International Expo reopens

1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India

1941 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for first time in 1941

1943 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers

1943 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)

1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia

1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit

1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan

1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111

1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai

1950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC

1951 New York Giant Willie Mays first major league game (goes 0 for 5)

1952 USS Iowa bombards Chongjin, Korea.

1953 The first atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat NV

1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall KS &most of Blackwell OK

1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas

1959 Khrushchev visits Angola

1959 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional

1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade

1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 meters

1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist &Shout"

1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)

1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week

1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket

1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania &Zambia

1964 16th Emmy Awards Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke &Mary Tyler Moore

1964 Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis

1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut

1965 Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles &is knocked unconscious on stage

1965 India &Pakistan border fights

1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in first round for heavyweight boxing title

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