**1919 - [[President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] personally delivers the [[Treaty of Versailles]] to the [[Senate]] and urges its ratification.
**1925 - The [[Scopes trial|Scopes Trial]] begins in Dayton, Tennessee
**1962 - The world's first communications satellite, '''Telstar''', is launched into orbit from [['''Cape Canaveral]]'''.
**1973 - The [[Bahamas]] gain full independence within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
**1985 - [[Greenpeace]] vessel ''Rainbow Warrior'' is blown up and sunk in Auckland, [[New Zealand]] Harbor by [[France|French]] government agents.