1967 The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is found dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.

1971 Humorist and author Bennet Cerf dies.

1973 Largest hailstone ever found in Canada falls at Cedoux; weight 290 grams, diameter 114 mm (almost three times bigger than a golf ball).

1974 Haile Selassie, former emperor of Ethiopia, dies in Addis Ababa at age 83.

1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world

1979 An IRA bomb takes the life of British Lord Louis Mountbatten in a boat off the Irish coast.

1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard the Andrea Doria

1981 Salvage divers recover a million dollars in cash and jewels from the wreckage of the Andrea Doria, sunk in 1965.

1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth

1984 Diane Sawyer joins the on-air reporting cast of the CBS TV show 60 Minutes.

1984 President Reagan announces the Teacher in Space project

1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched

1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings

1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq

1990 Canadian Army ordered to use whatever force necessary to end standoff between Kanasetake Mohawks and Quebec police at Oka.

1990 Fifty-two Americans, previously held hostage by Iraq, reach freedom in Turkey.

1990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude

1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise; later restored after reforms and refinancing.

1883 The volcano Krakatoa erupts and the resulting explosion is heard 2200 miles away in Australia.

1915 Italy declares war on Germany

1976 British MP John Stonehouse resigns following his conviction for theft and fraud

1986 US Air Force reveals they accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on New Mexico in 1957, which did not detonate

1882 The birth of Samuel Goldwyn, Co-founder of the MGM film studios in Hollywood

1899 The birth of C.S Forester, English novelist

1910 The birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Nobel Peace Prize winner

2006 Comair Flight 5191, carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after take off from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.

2007 United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation, to be effective sep 17.

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