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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