On this day...
1911-First airmail service (British Post Office)
1944-Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
1945-Japanese in S. Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
1948 Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1948-People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1956-Elvis Presley appears on national TV for first time (Ed Sullivan)
1965-Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1968-First U.S. Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins)
1971-1,000 convicts seize Attica, NY prison
1977-First TRS-80 computer sold
1983-Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
1989-Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the U.S. Open championship
1990-Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait