The first volume of Mein Kampf, the political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler that became the bible of Nazism in Germany’s Third Reich, was published this day in 1925, and two years later the second volume appeared. 1925.
For her performance in the uneven parallel bars at the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. 1976.
Allied forces captured the French town of Saint-Lô, a vital communications centre, during World War II. 1944.
French General Ferdinand Foch launched a counterstrike that forced the Germans into a hasty retreat during the Second Battle of the Marne, the last large German offensive of World War I. 1918.
The English novelist Jane Austen, who wrote such classics as Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), died in Winchester, Hampshire, at age 41. 1817.
