1940 – Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
1957 – Sun Record’s release single “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis; sells a million copies in first ten day
1961 – City of Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1986 – Suriname government proclaims gold purification
1997 – NHL’s new Columbus franchise (scheduled to begin play in 2000) announce team’s name would be “Blue Jackets” after soldiers in the Union army during the American Civil War
2012 – 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
2018 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Prague, Czech Republic: in a final denuded of both countries’ top players Kate?ina Siniaková beats American Sofia Kenin 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 to clinch a 3-0 win for the home side
2023 – Kimba, an escaped circus lion, roams the streets of the Italian seaside town of Ladispoli for five hours before being recaptured
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