Nyugen Van Thieu resigned as president of South Vietnam, 1975
Rome was founded by Romulus, -753
US Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina, 1954
Battle of San Jacinto (Texas), 1836
Kimball’s Ice Cream Stand (Littleton, Massachusetts) opened, 1939
Copernicus, OAO 4 (US) launched, 1972
Robert Alton Harris executed (first in California since 1967), 1992
Bustle patented (Alexander Douglas), 1857
Elvis Presley got his first #1 record (“Heartbreak Hotel”), 1956
Funeral for Benjamin Franklin (20,000 attended), 1790
Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’s “Annie” opened on Broadway, 1977
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), author, died, 1910
Manfred von Richthofen (“Red Baron”) shot down (Captain R. Brown - Canada), 1918
King Constantine (of Greece) sent into exile (in Italy), 1967