1647
Achsah Young becomes the first woman known to be executed as a witch in Massachusetts.
1668
Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1813
Americans capture Fort George, Canada.
1907
The Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.
1919
A U.S. Navy seaplane completes the first transatlantic flight.
1929
Colonel Charles Lindbergh marries Anne Spencer Murrow.
1935
The Supreme Court declares President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
1937
San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1941
The German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces.
1942
German General Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1944
American General MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea.
1960
A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey.
1969
Construction begins on Walt Disney World in Florida.
1972
President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev sign an arms reduction agreement.
1999
The international war crimes tribunal indicts Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic for war atrocities.
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