1965 Beatles release "Help" album in UK

1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights

1965 Nancy Carroll actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60

1974 Explosion &fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash

1978 Pope Paul VI dies of heart attack at summer residence at 80

1979 Kurt Kaszner actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65

1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed

1983 Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)

1984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB

1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM

1986 William J Schroeder (world's longest-survivor with permanent artificial heart, dies after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)

1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8

1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern Airlines picket lines

1990 President George Bush orders Operation Desert Shield

1990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstentions Cuba &Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

1991 Harry Reasoner newscaster (Host on 60 Minutes), dies at 68

1997 Korean Airlines Flight 801 crashed on Guam

1806 Holy Roman empire officially ends

1915 During World War I, Warsaw falls into German hands

1945 Atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima

1962 Jamaica gains independent from Britain

1809 The birth of Alfred Tennyson, English poet

1917 The birth of Robert Mitchum, American actor

2005 An ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 on board.

2005 Death of Robin Cook, Former British Foreign Secretary (b. 1946)

2005 Death of Carlo Little, influential UK rock and roll drummer (b.1938)

2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in historic Palestianian town of Jericho, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in over seven years. Olmert met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

2007 The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapses, trapping six miners.

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