1763 – Pontiac’s Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison’s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allowed governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided.
1865 – At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
1943 – 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1957 – US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
1979 – John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
1986 – NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1991 – Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
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