1980 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships

1981 MTV premiers this day

1982 Cathleen Nesbitt English actress (Seperate Tables), dies at 93

1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad

1983 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination

1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo

1985 Frank Faylen vaudevillian, dies at 79 of pneumonia

1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209

1987 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada

1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)

1987 Mike Tyson beats Tony Tucker to become undisputed boxing champion

1988 One-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon

1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo

1988 Raymond Carver poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50

1988 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)

1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24

1990 Ashton Tate ships new database software, dBase IV

1990 IBM gets out of typewriter business

1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait

1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida

1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA

1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched

1994 NASDAQ computers crash - squirrel caused power outage

1997 Boeing buys out McDonnell-Douglas for $16.3 billion

1498 Christopher Columbus reaches the mainland of North America

1774 Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time

1793 The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France

1798 The English navy, under Nelson, defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile

1914 Germany declares war on the Soviet Union, Italy declares itself neutral.

1975 Helsinki Agreement, on human rights, signed by over 35 nations

1976 Trinidad and Tobago independence

1933 The birth of Dom Deluise, American film actor

1936 The birth of Yves Saint-Laurent, Designer

2005 Death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)

2007 The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of rush hour, killing 13 people.

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