1937 - the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to the public.
1647 - the first recorded American execution of a "witch" took place in Massachusetts.
1818 - American reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who popularized the garment that bears her name -- "bloomers" -- was born in Homer, New York.
1896 - 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.
1935 - the Supreme Court struck down the National - strial Recovery Act.
1936 - the Cunard liner "Queen Mary" left England on its maiden voyage.
1941 - amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency."
1941 - the British navy sank the German battleship "Bismarck" off France, with a loss of 2300 lives.
1964 - independent dia\'s first prime minister - Jawaharlal Nehru, died.
1985 - in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after two decades in exile.
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