1964 Footbridge collapses over river gorge in Venezuela, and 29 people fall to their deaths in rapids below.

1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes first photograph of Earth from Moon

1968 Ringo quits the Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily

1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)

1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)

1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched

1977 The first man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)

1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC

1979 Soviet Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the U.S. during a performance in New York City.

1979 UN's Vienna office opens

1980 In the Kashmir - India Border Region a 5.2 quake killed 15 people killed, at least 40 injured and many houses damaged in the Bhaddu area, Kashmir

1985 In the Southern Xinjiang, China region a 7.3 quake killed at least 71, 162 injured, about 15,000 homeless and about 85 percent of the buildings destroyed in the Wuqia-Shufu area

1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

1985 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3 29.46) in Berlin

1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem

1992 More than 500 survivors return to Singapore from the cruise ship Royal Pacific, which sank after a collision with a fishing boat

1995 Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (Life magazine) dies at age 96.

2000 A Gulf Air Airbus jetliner with 140 aboard crashes into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain shortly after takeoff, leaving no survivors.

2000 In a 'reality TV' record an estimated 51 million US viewers tuned in for the finale of CBS' series Survivor, in which contestant Richard Hatch won the $US1 million prize.

1793 In France, the first ever national conscription introduced for unmarried men from ages 18 to 25

1914 Emperor of Japan declares war on Germany

1940 German bombers begin night time attacks (The Blitz) on London

1912 The birth of Gene Kelly, Hollywood song and dance man, also producer/director

1947 The birth of Willy Russell, Playwright; 'Educating Rita' and Shirley Valentine'

1949 The birth of Shelly Long, American actress

2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends.

2006 In Austria Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped eight years ago by Wolfgang Priklopil who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.

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