The Second International Aviation Meet opens in New York. The many contributions of aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss receive top billing in an upstate New York museum . The first American dies in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to French forces. Much later, U.S. complicity in the overthrow of South Vietnam's president made it impossible to stay uninvolved in the war . 1954 East German police arrest 400 citizens as U.S. spies.
Soviets sign a pact to send more aid to Hanoi.
Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina after being overthrown in 1955. 1800 William Holmes McGuffey, educator famous for his book Eclectic Readers . 1863 Mary Church Terrell, educator and civil rights advocate. 1865 Emmuska Orczy, baroness and author of The Scarlet Pimpernel . 1889 Walter Lippmann, journalist, one of the founders of The New Republic Magazine in 1914.