1927-Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1931-British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
1933-Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif.
1933-Nevada becomes first U.S. state to regulate narcotics
1945-U.S. troops lands on Mindanao
1951-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1959-Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
1960-USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1972-First black U.S. political convention opens (Gary, Ind.)
1973-Morocco adopts constitution
1975-Dog spectacles patented in England
1982-President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1987-Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
1995-Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed