Also on this day: Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Authorities in Florence, Italy, announce that the Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, has been recovered.
During World War I, a train carrying some 1,000 French troops from the Italian front derails while descending a steep hill in Modane; at least half of the soldiers are killed in France’s greatest rail disaster.The Rev.
Edward Flanagan finds Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb.A United Nations committee votes to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D.
Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of the U.N.’s headquarters.“Saturday Night Fever,” starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City.
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