This Day In History

1929 - WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions

1935 - Adolf Hitler orders German rearmament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles

1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

1939 - Hungary annexes republic of KarpatoUkraine

1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow

1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60

1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima

1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty 1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket

1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167

1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits

1968 - General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155

1970 - New English Bible published

1971 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister ChichesterClark meets with British PM Heath to disucss the security situation in Northern Ireland

1973 - Shah of Iran and Consortium members agree to nationalize all assets immediately in return for an assured 20-year supply of Iranian oil

1973 - OPEC discusses raising prices to offset decline of U.S. dollar value

1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces his resignation

1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland

1978 - Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast

1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth

1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty