CoM Moderators Posted Saturday at 05:03 AM Posted Saturday at 05:03 AM 1938 - Australian Championships Men's Tennis: American Don Budge wins the 1st-leg of his Grand Slam; beats John Bromwich of Australia 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 1956 - French government of Guy Mollet forms 1971 - US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich 1971 - Special Veterans Committee adds 6 former players and 1 executive to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Dave Bancroft, Jake Beckley, Chick Hafey, Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, Rube Marquard and George Weiss 1985 - South African President P. W. Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence 2006 - US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retires and is replaced by Samuel Alito 2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq 2017 - Romanian government passes emergency decree to release prisoners and decriminalise corruption charges, triggering huge protests in Bucharest More Historical Events »
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