1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia

1973 Saskatchewan Rough Rider fullback George Reed sets all time world pro football rushing record, beating the 12,312 yards held by the NFL's Jimmy Brown

1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126

1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing

1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London

1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is first to solo ascent Mt Everest

1980 UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital

1982 Mexican Treasury Secretary Jesus Silva Herzog tells foreign bankers that Mexico cannot repay her $60 billion foreign debt, the first Third World country to default

1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US

1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead

1987 The Canadian federal government slaps a total ban on smoking in public service offices, starting Jan. 1, 1988. Smoking by government employees at all public service counters ends immediately, well maybe not quite??

1988 In the Nepal-India border region a 6.6 quake killed 721, 6,553 injured and 64,470 buildings damaged in eastern Nepal

1989 In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake killed 2, injured 2 and damage and rockslides caused in the Galafi-Yoboki area

1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner

1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)

1997 Hudson Bay Railway, owned by Omnitrax of Denver, Colorado, takes over operation of former CN lines to Flin Flon, Lyn Lake and Churchill.

1914 German forces invade Brussels

1968 Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia

1890 The birth of H.P Lovecraft, American writer

1942 The birth of Isaac Hayes, American film actor

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