1937 - the hydrogen-filled German dirigible "Hindenburg" burned and crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.
1861 - Arkansas seceded from the Union.
1889 - the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
1910 - Britain's King Edward the Seventh died.
1935 - the Works Progress Administration began operating.
1942 - during World War Two, some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
1954 - medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in three minutes, 59.4 seconds.
1960 - Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)
1992 - actress Marlene Dietrich died at her Paris home at age 90.
1994 - former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.)
1994 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Second and French President Francois Mitterrand formally opened the Channel Tunnel between their countries.
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