1963 Great Train Robbery in England, 2.6 million pounds ($7.3 million)

1966 South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)

1968 Race riot in Miami Florida

1983 Jury in KC, Mo, awards Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV

1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet

1987 Lynne Cox became first to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait

1988 Discovery of most distant galaxy announced

1988 Duchess of York gives birth to baby girl

1988 Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years

1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war

1988 Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia

1988 South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola

1988 Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC

1990 Iraq annexes Kuwait

1786 Mt Blanc, the tallest mountain in Europe, climbed for the first time

1940 Battle of Britain

1960 Militray coup in Laos

1963 The Great Train Robbery, in which 2.5 million pounds are stolen

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as US President, the first to do so

1981 US announce plans to produce the neutron bomb

1983 Militray coup in Guatemala

1901 The birth of Ernest Lawrence, US physicist

1937 The birth of Dustin Hoffman, American actor

2007 The Space Shuttle Endeavour is successfully launched on mission STS-118.

2007 The 21st World Scout Jamboree at Hylands Park, Essex closes.

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