1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris

1941 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington KS (state record)

1941 British troops vacate Kreta

1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools

1942 Japanese midget submarines raid Sydney Harbour

1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury

1943 "Archie" comic strip first broadcast on radio

1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy

1944 USS England sank a record 6th Japanese submarine in 13 days.

1947 Communists grab power in Hungary

1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Port Deposit & Perryville MD, kills 53

1947 Italian Government of Gasperi forms

1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later)

1951 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord

1953 Lebanese President Camille Shamun disbands government

1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities

1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike

1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)

1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)

1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens

1961 Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated

1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris

1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Education of New Rochelle, to integrate

1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves the Commonwealth

1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV

1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim

1967 Bayern München wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg

1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8

1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"

1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amour"

1970 At 03 23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)

1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam

1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season

1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights

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