1900<\/strong> – The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the expansion of the German navy.<\/p>\n 1901<\/strong> – Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – Lillian Russel retired from the stage and was married for the fourth time.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I’s Western Front in France.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Warren Harding\u00a0urged every young man to attend military training camp.<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong> – Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a straitjacket.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1\/2 hours and was filled with 150,000 words.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – Ben Hogan won his first U.S. Open golf classic.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – “Cleopatra” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971.<\/p>\n 1979<\/strong> – Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Major league baseball players began a 49-day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – “Raiders of the Lost Ark” opened in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City’s Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Wayne “The Great One” Gretzky was named the winner of the NHL’s Hart Trophy. The award is given to the league Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – South Africa declared a national state of emergency. Virtually unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were put on news coverage of the unrest.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950s the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocked a law against indecency on the internet. 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