1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph

1950 Pres Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike

1950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title

1950 US President Harry Truman orders the Army to take over the railroads to stop a possible strike.

1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome

1963 Paul McCartney is fined œ31 & 1 yr suspended license for speeding

1964 The Beatles receive a gold record their third for A Hard Day's Night.

1967 Paraguay accepts its constitution

1981 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266 09)

1981 Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years

1981 Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)

1983 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact

1985 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem

1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42

1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214

1989 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)

1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq

1991 Carl Lewis runs 100m in 9.86 seconds

1981 The spacecraft Voyager 2 flies past the planet Saturn

1988 Romanian Chess master Mihai Suba and his son defect to the West during an international tournament in London

1530 The birth of Ivan the Terrible, Crowned as first Tsar of Russia in 1547

1918 The birth of Leonard Bernstein, Composer and conductor

1930 The birth of Sean Connery, Scottish actor

1938 The birth of Frederick Forsyth, British Author

2007 Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declares a national state of emergency after a series of devastating wildfires ravage western Peloponese and southern Euboea, killing 68 people.

2007 Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in Hyderabad, India.

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