1944<\/strong> – During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The lower level of the George Washington Bridge opened.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – Gemini 5<\/i>, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles (“Pete”) Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after eight days in space.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Mia Farrow withdrew from the cast of the ABC-TV’s “Peyton Place.”<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The final episode of “The Fugitive” aired.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – Lou Brock brought his total of stolen bases to 893. The record he beat was held by Ty Cobb for 49 years.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The anchor of the USS Monitor<\/i>, from the U.S. Civil War, was retrieved by divers.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party’s role in the failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Mario Lemieux announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments. He would sit out the National Hockey Leagues (NHL) 1994-95 season.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Northwest Airlines pilots went on strike after their union rejected a last-minute company offer.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – India test-launched a nuclear-capable missile able to carry a one-ton warhead. 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