Advance Australia Fair is made Australia’s national anthem.

A suicide bomber blow up the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.

The first Ford Mustang is introduced in the USA.

Apollo 16 launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Battle of Adrianople take place between Bulgarians and Crusaders.

Seventy nine Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.

Soldiers who were marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.

The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It…

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published.