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• In 1865, William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London.
• In 1912, a collision between a passenger coach and a freight train near Wilpen, Pa., claimed 26 lives.
• In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act.
• In 1946, the bikini, created by Louis Reard (ray-AHRD'), was worn by Micheline Bernardini during a poolside fashion show in Paris.
• In 1947, Larry Doby made his debut with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in the American League.
• In 1948, Britain's National Health Service Act went into effect, providing government-financed medical and dental care.
• In 1962, independence took effect in Algeria; the same day, civilians of European descent, mostly French, came under attack by extremists in the port city of Oran (reports of the death toll vary from about a hundred to the thousands).
• In 1971, President Richard Nixon certified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18.
• In 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors.
• In 1984, the Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old "exclusionary rule," deciding that evidence seized in good faith with defective court warrants could be used against defendants in criminal trials.
• In 1991, a worldwide financial scandal erupted as regulators in eight countries shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
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