1972 Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney $800 in Sweden cannabis possession

1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record

1976 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon

1978 Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers andfirefighters

1981 Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons

1982 NYSE tops 100 M share volume figure, 132.69 M shares traded

1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston andGalveston, Texas

1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel

1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire

1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28 21, 10 hours faster than the first man to do it

1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment

1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million

1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket

1991 Pan Am games closes in Havana

1966 The 'Cultural Revolution' in China begins

1993 Waring factions in Yugoslavia agree to place Sarajevo under UN control

1750 The birth of Antonio Salieri, Italian composer

1922 The birth of Shelley Winters, American actress

1933 The birth of Roman Polanski, Polish director

1937 The birth of Robert Redford, American actor and director

2005 BTK killer Dennis Rader is sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.

2005 Peace Mission 205, the first joint China-Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day training on the Shandong peninsula.

2007 Typhoon Sepat makes landfall in eastern Taiwan.

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