1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph

1981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan

1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to kill US President Ronald Reagan. He is later acquitted by reason of insanity.

1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men

1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3 47.33 (since broken)

1983 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation

1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour

1985 Launch of Aussat, Australia's first domestic communications satellite

1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying

1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany

1990 Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province

1991 5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident

1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher

1992 National Defence sends destroyer HMCS Gatineau to monitor UN embargo against Yugoslavia and moves to NATO standing force in Mediterranean

1995 Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announce plans for a $10 billion merger to become the largest bank in the US.

1996 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, ending 15 years of marriage.

1789 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn

1963 Over 200,000 people march through Washington in a civil rights demonstration led by Rv. Martin Luther King

1990 Kuwait declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein

2005 Terrorist wounds 52 at bus station in Beersheba, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.

2006 A Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal, carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown killing 5 people including the driver and several are seriously injured.

2007 Abdullah Gül is elected as the eleventh President of Turkey by the Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.

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