1962 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program

1963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans

1965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125

1969 300,000 attend the Altamont CA, rock concert feature Rolling Stones

1971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew

1974 George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"

1975 H-46 Sea Knight helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island began search and rescue operations in the northwestern Washington state areas flooded by heavy rains

1977 South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence

1980 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn

1980 NASA launches Intelsat V

1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland

1982 Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce

1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis

1984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage

1985 John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24,000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert.

1985 UK joins US Star Wars project

1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"

1988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden

1988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown

1988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission

1989 Worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at University of Montreal

1990 Saddam anounces release of all foreign hostages

1991 "Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country" premieres

1991 Brooke Ashley Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah

1992 Riots follow Hindu attack on Ayodha Mosque in India

1994 Apple filed a lawsuit against a San Francisco software firm called Canyon Co., alleging the company had stolen thousands of lines of code from Apple's QuickTime for Windows.

1995 After a long and heated debate, House and Senate committee members agreed on the final wording of the Communications Decency Act, which made it a crime to provide pornography to minors over the Internet.

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Hispaniola, later changed to Haiti

1774 Austria becomes the first nation to introduce state education

1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting 'Mary Had A Little Lamb'

1921 As a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the 'Irish Free State' is formally created

1926 Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, introduces a tax on bachelors

1892 The birth of Sir Osbert Sitwell, British Writer

1896 The birth of Ira Gershwin, American lyricist; with brother George

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