1963 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK

1963 Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators

1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck

1969 Simon and Garfunkel releases "Boxer"

1975 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"

1975 Operation Eagle Pull evacuation from Cambodia

1979 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth

1981 First launching of re-useable Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1) with all Navy crew. CAPT John W. Young, USN (Ret.) commanded, while LCDR Robert L. Crippen, USN was the pilot. Mission duration was 2 days, 6 hours, and 20 minutes. Sixteen of the shuttle's heat-shielding silicon tiles were lost and 148 damaged during reentry.

1982 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot

1982 Ottawa bans imports from Argentina, to protest invasion of Falkland Islands.

1983 Harold Washington becomes Chicago's first black mayor

1985 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn

1985 US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow games

1987 Texaco files for brankruptcy

1989 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through

1990 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers

1991 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs

1991 US announces closing of 31 major US military bases

1992 Earthquake rocks Germany

1992 Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France

1992 Lynn Gunther of Calif threatens to blow herself up in front of UN

1992 Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle

1993 Aircraft from USS Theodore Roosevelt and NATO forces begin enforcing the no-fly zone over the Bosnia in Operation Deny Flight

1998 In Austria a 6.0 earthquake resulted in the death of one person of a heart attack at Bovec, Slovenia.

1204 Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Or was it Instanbul?

1606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag God save the king

1861 Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting the Civil War The South is rising

1961 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes person to orbit Earth UFO theorists start talking about government conspiracies

1981 First space shuttle (Columbia) launched Americans prove to Russians that theirs is better because it's recyclable

1883 The birth of Imogen Cunningham, American photographer

1923 The birth of Maria Callas, Italian opera singer

1956 The birth of Andy Garcia, American actor

2007 Don Imus is fired by CBS for making controversial comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.

2009 President Mahmoud Abbas of e Paleinian National Auority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minier Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, rearting e Paleinian-Israeli dialogue

2009 U.S. Navy rescues captain Richa Phillips, killing ree pirates and capturing a four.

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