1988 Australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala)

1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)

1989 The first complete ring around Neptune discovered

1990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves

1990 Scores of angry smokers block street near Moscow's Red Square for hours to protest summer-long cigarette shortage.

1994 Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole.

1642 English Civil War begins

1788 British create the settlement of Sierra Leone, Africa, for freed slaves

1864 International Red Cross formed in Geneva, Switzerland

1911 Mona Lisa' stolen from the Louvre art gallery, Paris

1862 The birth of Claude Debussy, French composer of 'Clair de lune'

1893 The birth of Dorothy Parker, American writer and humorist

1908 The birth of Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer

1920 The birth of Ray Bradbury, American author; 'The Martian Chronicles'

2005 A 4.1-kg (9-pound) meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving a 15-cm (6-inch) crater.

2006 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.

2006 The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal.

2007 The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

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