1660 English Convention Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II
1792 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier
1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War
1915 First landings at Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula by ANZAC forces during WWI
1920 San Remo conference establishes three League of Nations mandates: a French mandate for Syria, and British mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine with effect to the terms of the Balfour Declaration
1945 “Elbe Day” – US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in WWII
1953 Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in “Nature” magazine
Magazine advert for Bell Labs’ new invention, the solar battery
First Solar Battery
1954 Bell labs announces the 1st Solar Battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency.
1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by space shuttle Discovery
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Today in Film & TV
1964 11th National Film Awards (India): “Shehar Aur Sapna” wins the Golden Lotus
Today in Music
1926 Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot” premieres in Milan
Today in Sport
1950 Chuck Cooper becomes the 1st African American to be drafted into the NBA (for Boston Celtics)
1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map “Universalis Cosmographia”
1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by USS submarine Triton in 60 days, 21 hours
Famous Weddings
1972 Comedic actor Bob Denver (37) weds third wife Carole Abrahams
1973 Singer and actor Dean Martin marries third wife Catherine Hawn (divorced 1976)
1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
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