Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon. 1920 - The League of Nations places the International head of Justice in the Hague. 1936 - The State Department of Public Welfare was established. World History 1843 - Hong Kong is proclaimed a British Crown Colony. 1994 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years.
Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin at Odessa.
1969 - Honduras and El Salvador break diplomatic relations because of a soccer match. 1935 - FDR orders the construction of a federal gold depository at Fort Knox. World History 1838 - Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1914 - Austria invades Serbia. 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI, is signed in France.