On this day :
1951 Paris celebrates 2000th birthday, 1776 Liberty Bell tolls to announce Declaration of Independence, 2004 Suzuki settles Consumer Reports lawsuit after eightyear legal battle, 1863 Confederates surrender Port Hudson Louisiana, 1954 Colonel Castillo Armas takes power in Guatemala, 1928 A spiteful son kills four in a fit of rage, 1997 Torrential rains cause flooding in Europe, 1776 The Liberty Bell rings, 1853 Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay, 1950 MacArthur named Korean commander, 1960 Pilot Francis Gary Powers charged with espionage, 1994 North Koreas Great Leader dies, 1949 Official Oscars chef Wolfgang Puck born, 1918 Hemingway is wounded, 1972 Lean On Me begins its first stay at 1, 1898 Soapy Smith killed in Skagway Alaska, 1891 Warren Harding marries Florence Mabel Kling DeWolfe, 1941 Splendid Splinter homers to win AllStar Game, 1959 First Americans killed in South Vietnam, 1965 Taylor resigns Saigon post, 1918 Ernest Hemingway wounded on the Italian front, 1941 German generals diary reveals Hitlers plans for Russia,
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