a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.

1961

Politics

Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962.

Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine

A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.

Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.

Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.

Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S

Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.

Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm

Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb

Argentine general election

Seven people die

Typhoon Wilda

Flying Tiger Line Flight 923

U.S. President John F