1837-Astor Hotel (most elaborate in US) opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1941-German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1944-Allied breakthrough in Italy
1955-Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
1955-Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955-Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1961-JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
1961-Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaving the Commonwealth
1969-Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amour"
1974-Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
1990-63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1993-President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees