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Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGitmoToday in History1665 - After the Dutch pull out, the English rename New Amsterdam: New York.
1775 - In the first naval battle of the American Revolution, the American ship
Unity captures the British
Margaretta.
1776 - Virginia adopts a Declaration of Rights.
1787 - A law is enacted that states a senator must be at least 30 years old.
1812 - Napoleon invades Russia.
1838 - The Territory of Iowa is organized.
1839 - The first baseball game is played in America.
1845 - George Abernethy becomes Oregon's first governor.
1849 - Lewis Haslett (KY) patents the gas mask.
1898 - Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain (to U.S. control).
1900 - The German Navy Law calls for a massive increase in sea power.
1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit takes place in France.
1934 - The Black-McKeller Bill is passed, splitting the Boeing empire into United Airlines and Boeing United Aircraft (Technologies).
1937 - As Stalin's purge continues, 8 army leaders are executed.
1962 - USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 56,270 meters.
1967 - 300 are arrested at a race riot in Cincinnati, OH; the Supreme Court unanimously ends laws banning interracial marriages; the U.S.S.R. launches the Venera 4, for a Venus parachute landing.
Birthdays
1771 - Patrick Gass, Sgt. of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1851 - Oliver Joseph Lodge England, early radio pioneer
1897 - Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon,British PM
1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush, 43rd Vice President, 41st President
1929 - Anne Frank Holland, diarist/Nazi victim
19?? - My husband!
Passings1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP official, murdered
Reported Missing in Action1965 Holland, Lawrence T.,
USAF (CA); F100D shot down, ejected, killed in shootout on ground, KIA, body not recovered
1966Harris, Gregory J. ,
USMC (records say OH, family says NY); captured
1972 Angus, William K.,
USMC (CO); A6A shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998
Wiley, Richard D.,
US Army (IL); OH6A shot down, KIA, body not recovered
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