1917 –<\/strong> Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia.<\/p>\n 1920 –<\/strong> A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA.<\/p>\n 1930 –<\/strong> Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.<\/p>\n 1937 –<\/strong> Japanese forces invaded China.<\/p>\n 1946 –<\/strong> Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.<\/p>\n 1949 –<\/strong> “Dragnet” was first heard on NBC radio.<\/p>\n 1950 –<\/strong> The U.N. Security Council authorized military aid for South Korea.<\/p>\n 1969 –<\/strong> Canada’s House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government.<\/p>\n 1981 –<\/strong> U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 1983 –<\/strong> Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.<\/p>\n 1987 –<\/strong> Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began.<\/p>\n 1994 –<\/strong> Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the name “Cadabra.”<\/p>\n 1998 –<\/strong> A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby’s only son, during a roadside robbery.<\/p>\n 1999 –<\/strong> In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation’s civil war.<\/p>\n 2000 –<\/strong> Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it would buy Netiverse Inc. for $210 million in stock. It was the 13th time Cisco had purchased a company in 2000.<\/p>\n 2000 –<\/strong> Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of “Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire,” making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.<\/p>\n 2003 –<\/strong> In Liberia, a team of U.S. military experts arrived at the U.S. embassy compound to assess whether to deploy troops as part of a peacekeeping force in the country.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013<\/strong> A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013<\/strong> The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013<\/strong> At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013<\/strong> A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013<\/strong> Former U.S. Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. 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