1906<\/strong> – Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premiere of Mamzelle Champagne<\/i> in New York.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The first American fighting troops landed in France.<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong> – The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – Gaelic scholar Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first president of the Irish Republic.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV at the time.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand slam.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Erskine Childers Jr. became president of Ireland after the retirement of Eamon De Valera.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador was damaged when gunmen attacked using rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The Dow Jones industrial average of selected stocks on the New York Stock Exchanged closed at its highest level in more than eight years.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S. social security system from bankruptcy.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – It was reported that a U.S. Army Major stationed in East Germany had been shot and killed by a Soviet Border Guard.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters took Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – Robert E. Chambers Jr. pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. The case was known as New York City’s “preppie murder case.”<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – In Paris, the Louvre reopened with I.M. Pei’s new courtyard pyramid.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – A fire in Happy Land, an illegal New York City social club, killed 87 people.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched a major counter-offensive to recapture key towns from Kurds in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after spending 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space station.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – President de Klerk admitted that South Africa had built six nuclear bombs, but said that they had since been dismantled.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – United States troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – Boxer Mike Tyson was released from jail after serving 3 years.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, MT.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – The U.S. issued a newly redesigned $100 bill for circulation.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A cancer patient was the first known to die under Oregon’s doctor-assisted suicide law.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The FCC nets $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless technology.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Quinn Pletcher was found guilty on charges of extortion. He had threatened to kill Bill Gates unless he was paid $5 million.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dismissed complaints against Walt Disney Co.’s ABC network broadcast of Victoria’s Secret fashion show in November 2001.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate voted (61-38) on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997) to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime.<\/p>\n 2006 <\/strong>\u2013 Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> \u2013 Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. 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