1901-Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
1920-7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
1934-Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia
1938-Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
11953-Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F. Kennedy
1953-Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Secretary of USSR Communist Party
1956-Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
1961-NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
1965-17th annual Emmy Awards
1970-USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
1972-Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics
1980-Military coup in Turkey
1983-Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
1983-USSR vetoes U.N. resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
1990-U.S., England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing the 2 Germanys to merge
1991-Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched