1984 Christopher Wilder FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self

1984 Pete Rose becomees first NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career

1985 "TASS" denounced US.boycott of the Moscow Olympics

1985 Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas

1986 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record

1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue

1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second

1992 "Two Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr theater on Broadway

1992 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%

1992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas

1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood

1992 In the Netherlands and Germany a 5.5 earthquake occurred. One person died of a heart attack at Bonn, Germany. Twenty people injured and some buildings damaged (VIII) at Roermond, Netherlands and 25 people injured and some buildings damaged (VII) at Heinsberg, Germany.

2001 At 8 20 p.m. MDT. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck 50 km to the northeast of Dawson Creek, BC and about 100 km north of Grand Prairie, Alberta

1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots Countdown to the revolution starts

1849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed

1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again

1912 The British Royal Flying Corps (RAF) was created by Royal Charter

1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial

1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara And atom here, an atom there

1970 The American spacecraft Apollo 13, enroute to the Moon, has an onboard explosion

1519 The birth of Catherine de Medicis, Queen consort of Henry II of France

1743 The birth of Thomas Jefferson, Former American President

1852 The birth of F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores

1902 The birth of Philippe de Rothschild, French industrialist

1906 The birth of Samuel Beckett, French author

1963 The birth of Gary Kasparov, Russian world champion chess player

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