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 NASA launches space vehicle S-209

1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)

1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")

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

1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo

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 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait

1990 Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm

1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges

1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA

1964 US destroyer attacked by Vietnamese torpedo boats in Gulf of Tonkin

1990 Iraq invades Kuwait

1924 The birth of James Baldwin, American writer

1932 The birth of Peter O'Toole, British actor

2005 Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.

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