1896-Henry takes his first Ford through streets of Detroit
1919-Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1929-George Eastman demonstrates first technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1942-Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II
1944-5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies
1946-Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1956-Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1970-Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1982-Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1986-Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
1989-Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989-Eastern Europe's first somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland
1990-Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy