1831 - British explorer James Clark Ross discovers the magnetic North Pole on the west coast of Boothia peninsula
1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph
1941 - Germany occupies Crete after Allied evacuation
1975 - LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pine Ridge GC: Kathy Whitworth wins her 3rd LPGA C'ship by 1 stroke from Sandra Haynie
1979 - Los Angeles passes its first homosexual rights bill

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