Such as the new Hyatt Hotel and Conference Centre complex. When completed Trinidad will have the largest Conference Centre in the Caribbean. The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade. France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years War. Peter III of Russia was murdered. Catherine II the Great took the throne. France limited the importation of goods from Britain. Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.

Authorization was given to build a tunnel beneath the Chicago River. Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. The British royal family adopted the Windsor name. The longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held new york Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games. Brigadier General Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The building became known as the Pentagon.

232 people were killed when 2 ammunition ships exploded in Port Chicago, CA. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. Chinese communists opened a drive against the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of black players. Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA. Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North Vietnam forces to defend against American air strikes. An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to Miami in exile. Two skywalks suspended from the ceiling over the atrium lobby at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO, collapsed. Five years later two design engineers were convicted for their negligence. LTV Corporation asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. The Nasdaq composite stock index rose above 1,000 for the first time. 230 people were killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed off Long Island, NY. After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. Nicholas II, the last of Romanov czars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. Eight days later the government reported that 1,500 people were dead, 2,000 were missing and thousands were homeless.