1968 The first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)

1969 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival

1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash

1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida

1972 David Barrett 1930- leads the NDP to victory over WAC Bennett's Social Credit Party, taking 39 seats in the British Columbia provincial election; upsetting 20 years of Socred rule

1973 Kenya bans the hunting of elephants and the trade in ivory.

1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153

1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show

1976 USS Oriskany, the last of the Essex-class attack carriers, was decommissioned at San Francisco and placed in the mothball fleet. Oriskany saw extensive action in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

1979 A U.S. Navy CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter of VR-24 lifted a 12-foot bronze statue of the Madonna and Child to the top of Mt. Tiberius on Capri, Italy, to replace one which had been destroyed by lightning. The statue was too large to be transported overland.

1979 The first prototype of the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk helicopter was unveiled at the Sikorsky Aircraft Division at Stratford, Connecticut

1979 The first recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)

1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)

1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr, the first African-American astronaut, blasts off as a crewmember aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)

1986 In Romania a 6.9 earthquake killed 2 people, 558 injured, and about 55,000 homes damaged, leaving more than 12,500 people homeless in the Kishinev-Kagul area

1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)

1986 US News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is arrested by Soviet authorities for suspicion of spying.

1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec

1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6'10¬")

1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen

1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills

1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner

1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points

1991 France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«

1997 The world learns of the Paris car crash that killed England's Princess Diana, her husband and Harrod's owner Dodi Fayed, and their driver.

1900 Outbreak of bubonic plague in Glasgow, UK

1981 In Iran, the President and Prime Minister are killed by a bomb

1983 Guy Bluford becomes the first black American in space

1797 The birth of Mary Shelley, English novelist and creator of 'Frankenstein'

1908 The birth of Fred MacMurray, American actor

2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flew from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA carrying 6 nuclear warheads.

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