1960 Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France

1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)

1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum

1967 In the Pyrenees a 5.3 quake resulted in numerous buildings were destroyed in Arette, Oloron, and Montory; one person was killed and 80 were injured

1971 Paul and Linda McCartney release "The Back Seat of My Car"

1976 An HU-16 Albatross, the Navy's last operational seaplane made its final water landing in Pensacola Bay

1977 First test glide of the shuttle

1979 Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit

1980 Joseph MacInnis oceanographer discovers sunken barque HMS 'Breadalbane,' crushed by ice and sunk at Beechey Island NWT, Aug. 21, 1853; Scottish ship well preserved by extreme cold; sonar shows some sails and rigging intact; world's northernmost found shipwreck.

1988 Ronald J Dossenbach sets record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax in 13 days 15 hr 4 minutes.

1988 US beats Jamaicia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1989 US space shuttle STS-28 lands

1705 Battle of Blenheim, in southern Germany

1961 Border between east and west Berlin sealed off by East Germans

1974 The last United States troops leave Vietnam

1756 The birth of Queen Adelaide, Consort of William IV

1899 The birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English born film director

1927 The birth of Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

2005 Death of David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)

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