On this day :

1947 Congress investigates Reds in Hollywood, 1774 Congress creates the Continental Association, 1965 Last Volvo PV rolls off the assembly line, 1819 Union General Daniel Sickles is born, 1947 The Red Scare comes to Hollywood, 1990 2 Live Crew members are acquitted of obscenity charges, 1944 Natural gas explosions rock Cleveland, 1827 Battle of Navarino, 1935 Maos Long March concludes, 1944 MacArthur returns, 1973 Sydney Opera House opens, 2011 Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi is Killed, 1994 Burt Lancaster dies, 1853 French poet Arthur Rimbaud is born, 1977 Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash, 1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase, 1962 Kennedy press secretary misleads press, 1968 Fosbury flops to an Olympic record, 1964 Relations between South Vietnam the United States and Cambodia deteriorate, 1973 Watergate special prosecutor dismissed, 1918 Turks send British officer to negotiate armistice terms, 1944 US forces land at Leyte Island in the Philippines,