Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia. Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops. The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened. The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards...
