Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps Osage Indians cede Missouri and Arkansas lands Confederate prison camp commander Henry Wirz is executed Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front Hirohito crowned in Japan Roy Scheider, star of Jaws, is born Germans take Vichy France Future country legend Conway Twitty earns a #1 hit as a rock-and-roll idol McNamara says that U.S. has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam Sesame Street debuts No U.S. combat fatalities reported Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh airport Slaughterhouse-Five is burned in North Dakota Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior Cargo ship suddenly sinks in Lake Superior Leonid Brezhnev dies Maryland gets a miracle in Miami Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria Judge reduces sentence in nanny murder case Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism





