On this date

1945 – Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1951 – Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 – Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball’s National League
1952 – 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1955 – Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1956 – Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect world series game, vs Brooklyn (World Series #53)
1957 – Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 – Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1959 – LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 – Bobby Richardson hits a world series grand slammer (World Series #57)
1962 – Algeria admitted as 109th member of the UN
1962 – N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers’ Party
1963 – Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 – Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 – Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
1966 – Wyoming’s Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1970 – Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 – John Lennon releases his megahit “Imagine”
1977 – Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1978 – Ken Warby set the world water speed record at 319.627 mph
1978 – Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph)
1978 – Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1981 – USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
1981 – President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral
1982 – NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at the Meadowland
1982 – Poland bans Solidarity
1983 – 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1986 – Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1988 – Fire in Seattle’s Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 – US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1992 – Willy Brandt, chancellor of W Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1992 – Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1999 – New Coligny Calendar, NCC, the beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar
2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2005 – The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC