1976 The first quadrophonic movie track "Ladies &Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"

1977 In Iran a 6.0 earthquake was was centered about 800 kilometers northwest of Bandar Abbas. The earthquake killed at least 348, injured about 200

1977 Judge rules the Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released

1977 The Kingdome in Seattle opens

1979 Rod Stewart &Alana Collins wed

1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season

1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands

1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched

1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale

1986 American, James Connolly, wins first Olympic gold medal in mod history

1986 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14 14 hrs

1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler

1989 President orders DOD to assist in Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup

1990 Lady Nancy Hawkes (1946 best dress woman) dies at 73

1990 Liberals and Parti Quebecois team up to pass motion rejecting any modifications to Meech Lake accord; hours before Newfoundland rejection.

1990 Newfoundland Legislature votes to rescind support for Meech Lake accord.

1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy

1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin &TV-AM radio licenses

1992 Futurist/author Isaac Asimov dies at age 72 of heart and kidney failure in New York.

1992 Isaac Asimov science fiction writer (I Robot), dies at 72

1992 The Goderich Exeter Railway commences operations over the former CN line between Stratford Junction and Goderich and from Clinton Junction to Centralia in Ontario.

1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps

1993 Branch Navy Hospital Adak responds to crash of civilian Chinese airline providing lifesaving treatment and medical evacuation of 89 injured passengers. Only one passenger out of 265 passengers died.

1789 US Congress begins regular sessions in Federal Hall, NYC Lobbyists only arrive later

1896 First modern Olympic games begin in Athens, Greece

1909 The North Pole reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary

1917 The United States enter World War I

1965 Early Bird, world's first commercial communication satellite, launched

1483 The birth of Raphael, Italian painter

1671 The birth of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French philosopher

1866 The birth of Butch Cassidy, American 'Wild West' outlaw

1874 The birth of Harry Houdini, Famous escape artist

1928 The birth of James Watson, American scientist who discovered DNA structure

1929 The birth of Andre Previn, American conductor

2005 First 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number, computed by the Frenchman Alexis Lemaire

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