1831-Second national black convention (Philadelphia)
1933-First drive-in theatre opens (Camden, N.J.)
1944-D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1967-Six day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1975-Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1980-Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbeldon title
1982-30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1984-1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985-Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1988-George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
2012-Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs