1985 Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area

1985 Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.

1986 Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746

1987 Clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted

1988 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war

1989 Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness.

1989 Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack

1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune

1990 Gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum

1991 Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days

1995 NSW Police Royal Commission key witness Trevor Haken accuses 35 high ranking officers and others of corruption.

1997 Death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion.

2000 British troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups.

2017 Next total solar eclipse visible from North America

2017 The next total solar eclipse visible from Canada will happen on this day.

1900 Allied forces overun Peking's inner city

1915 Italy declares war on Turkey

1958 Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America

1963 Martial law imposed in South Vietnam

1984 Widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections

1986 A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error'

1991 Attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin

1904 The birth of Count Baise, US bandleader and jazz player

1938 The birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter

2005 British Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston

2007 Hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

2007 STS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.

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