1552 – Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1701 – Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk
1909 – Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1938 – 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1943 – Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1943 – RAF bombs Hamburg
1967 – “In the Heat of the Night” directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1968)
1972 – Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
1980 – Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
1987 – 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
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