- 1881 American Red Cross founded
- 1901 Connecticut enacts first speed-limit law
- 1863 The Siege of Port Hudson begins
- 1988 Gorbachev consolidates power
- 1924 Leopold and Loeb gain national attention
- 1996 A veteran’s flashback defense doesn’t hold up in court
- 1960 Huge earthquake hits Chile
- 1542 De Soto dies in the American wilderness
- 1927 Lindbergh lands in Paris
- 1932 Earhart completes transatlantic flight
- 1910 Serialization of Colette’s The Vagabond begins
- 1955 Chuck Berry records “Maybellene”
- 1539 Black Spanish explorer Estevan is reported killed
- 1969 Military spokesman defends “Hamburger Hill”
- 1911 Second Moroccan Crisis
- 1940 Nazis kill “unfit” people in East Prussia
- 1942 Thousands of Jews die in Nazi gas chambers; IG Farber sets up factory
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