1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB

1988 Barry Sanders wins the Heisman Trophy

1989 George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta

1991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion

1991 Muslim Shiites release US hostage Alan Steen

1991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns

1994 AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, infected with HIV from a blood transfusion, dies in Santa Monica, CA, at age 47.

1901 Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech to the house of representatives, kicks off his effort to curb the power of business trusts.

1944 Civil War breaks out in Greece

1857 The birth of Joseph Conrad, british novelist.

1911 The birth of Nino Rota, Italian composer

1923 The birth of Maria Callas, American soprano

1930 The birth of Jean Luc Godard, French director

2005 Birth of Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway

2006 Ed Stelmach is elected the new Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, Canada, after the second ballot results, and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed becomes the Premier-designate of Alberta.

2006 Hugo Chávez is re-elected President of Venezuela.

2006 Explosive demolition of Germany's tallest chimney at former Westerholt Power Station.

2007 Kevin Rudd is sworn in as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, by Governor General Major-General Michael Jeffery.

2007 14 - United Nations Climate Change Conference at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia

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