1556: Henry II of France and Philip of Spain sign the truce of Vaucelles.
1631: A ship from Bristol, the Lyon, arrives with provisions for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1762: Martinique, a major French base in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, surrenders to the British.
1783: Sweden recognizes U.S. independence.
1846: The first Pacific Coast newspaper, Oregon Spectator, is published.
1864: Federal forces occupy Jackson, Miss.
1865: The three-day Battle of Hatcher’s Run, Va., begins.
1900: The United States and Great Britain sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, giving the United States the right to build a canal in Nicaragua but not to fortify it.
1917: U.S. Congress nullifies President Woordrow Wilson‘s veto of the Immigration Act; literacy tests are required.
1918: The Soviets proclaim separation of church and state.
1922: The Reader’s Digest begins publication in New York.
1922: William Larned’s steel-framed tennis racquet gets its first test.
1945: American and French troops destroy German forces in the Colmar Pocket in France.
1947: The Soviet Union and Great Britain reject terms for an American trusteeship over Japanese Pacific Isles.
1952: New York adopts three-coloured traffic lights.
1961: The Soviets launch Sputnik V, the heaviest satellite to date at 7.1 tons.
1968: U.S. troops divide Viet Cong at Hue while the Saigon government claims they will arm loyal citizens.
1971: Two Apollo 14 astronauts walk on the moon.
1972: It is reported that the United States has agreed to sell 42 F-4 Phantom jets to Israel.
1985: the U.S. halts a loan to Chile in protest over human rights abuses.
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