1965 Linda McGill becomes first Australian woman to swim the English Channel.

1966 Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march

1969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars

1973 USSR launches Mars 6

1974 Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways

1981 Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers on strike

1985 Flexible-wing glider altitude record set

1988 Mario Biaggi politician convicted of racketeering

1991 Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record in Malmo Sweden

2000 Sir Alec Guinness, revered as one of Britain's most versatile actors, dies at 86.

1905 Norway cuts diplomatic ties with Sweden

1914 USA declares itself neutral as Germany declares war on the Soviet Union

1962 Nelson Mandella arrested and then imprisoned

1963 Nuclear Test Ban Agreement signed, allowing nuclear weapon to only be tested underground

1906 The birth of John Huston, American film director

1930 The birth of Neil Armstrong, First man on the Moon

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