1889-Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1932-U.S. Federal gas tax enacted
1933-First drive-in theatre opens (Camden, New Jersey)
1942-Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942-Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1972-Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)
1972-Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1982-Israel invades southern Lebanon, site of Palestinian guerrilla
1984-1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985-Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1988-George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WWII Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
2012-Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
1932-U.S. Federal gas tax enacted
1933-First drive-in theatre opens (Camden, New Jersey)
1942-Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942-Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1972-Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia)
1972-Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1982-Israel invades southern Lebanon, site of Palestinian guerrilla
1984-1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985-Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1988-George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WWII Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
2012-Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
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