Flashback

In 1935, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946.

In 1940, During the Second World War, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.

In 1969, During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, commander of the Third Marine Division, became the first general to be killed in Vietnam by enemy fire.