Also on this day: The “S-O-S” distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.The First Battle of Ypres during World War I ends with an Allied victory against Germany.
A flying boat, the China Clipper, takes off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.The Humane Society of the United States is incorporated as the National Humane Society. "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley dies in California at age 69.The musical “Man of La Mancha” opens on Broadway.The U.N.
Security Council approves Resolution 242, which calls for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly calls on adversaries to recognize.
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