Get On This Day delivered free to your inbox: http://bit.ly/14agw7n <br />http://www.worldcrunch.com <br /> <br />1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities". <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration#/media/File:Balfour_portrait_and_declaration.JPG <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Uy5OFKAyU <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV3I-0bN06s <br /> <br />1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2oKRTk99mM <br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haile_Selassie_in_full_dress.jpg <br /> <br />1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_assassination_of_Ngo_Dinh_Diem <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGJaJBocqdQ <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqC_mUCYfF0 <br /> <br />1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWTk0Uflyk8 <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G03zsCEWsiw <br /> <br />Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet
