Nevada become 36th state
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is completed
Indian Prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated
Saigon begins the release of 1,938 Hanoi POW's
Former Enron Corp. CEO Andrew Fastow convicted on 78 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, obstruction of justice and wire fraud
The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific
Congress ratifies the purchase of the entire Louisiana area in North America
Heavy snowfall trapped Donner Party in Sierra Nevadas
Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek is the first American to reach the South Pole
Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican
Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto
Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico
EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket
25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, D.C.
4th Olympic games ends in London
Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation
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