Today in History

Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to perform a space walk.

The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in Oldham, England.

Allied forces begin the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy.

Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup.

The U.S. government freezes Japanese and Chinese assets.

Barbara Harris, actress.

Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is shot and killed by Nazis.

Midge Decter, writer and editor.

Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.

Russia declares that it will act to protect Serbian sovereignty.

French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel in an airplane.

Johnny Hodges, jazz musician.

Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and philosopher (The True Believer, Before the Sabbath),

Japanese forces sink the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea.

Morris Raphael Cohen, American philosopher and mathematician.