1310 Shoes were made for both right & left feet.
1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty.
1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship.
1964 Buster Mathis beats future world heavyweight champion Joe Frazer on points at trials in Flushing, NY to qualify for US Olympic boxing team; Mathis injures thumb, replaced by Frazier who wins gold medal.
1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
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