On this day :
1957 Race car driver AJ Foyt gets first pro victory, 1780 Americans suffer worst defeat of revolution at Charleston, 2000 Fourthgeneration NASCAR driver Adam Petty dies in crash, 1864 North and South see bloody day at the Bloody Angle, 1975 American ship Mayaguez seized, 1932 Body of Lindbergh baby found, 1987 Forest fire sweeps across China, 1937 George VI crowned at Westminster, 1949 Berlin blockade lifted, 1970 Blackmun confirmed to Supreme Court, 1907 Katharine Hepburn born, 1828 Poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti is born, 1963 Bob Dylan walks out on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1832 Fur trader William Sublette heads west, 1903 Teddy Roosevelts trip to San Francisco is captured on film, 1970 Ernie Banks hits 500th home run, 1961 Lyndon B Johnson visits South Vietnam, 1971 Heavy fighting erupts in A Shau Valley, 1918 Germany and AustriaHungary sign pact to exploit Ukraine, 1941 Hitler backs Rashid Ali in his fight against Britain,
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