On this day :

1911 First aroundtheworld telegram sent 66 years before Voyager II launch, 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers, 2004 Recordsetting towtruck parade held in Washington State, 1862 Horace Greeleys The Prayer of Twenty Millions is published, 1968 Soviet Union intervenes in Czechoslovakia, 1989 The Menendez brothers murder their parents, 1995 Trains collide and explode in India, 1940 Trotsky assassinated in Mexico, 1968 Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia, 1975 Viking 1 launched to Mars, 1982 US Marines deployed to Lebanon, 1918 Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann born, 1918 Jacqueline Susann born, 2013 Bestselling crime writer Elmore Leonard dies, 1977 Best of My Love by the Emotions hits the top of the US pop charts, 1804 Corps of Discovery suffers its only death, 1833 Benjamin Harrison is born, 1920 Professional football is born, 1954 United States decides to support Diem, 1971 Minh and Ky withdraw from presidential race, 1974 Military aid to Saigon slashed, 1932 German artist unveils monument honoring soldiers killed in World War I, 1944 Brits launch Operation Wallace and aid French Resistance,