1985 NY Yankees great Roger Maris dies of cancer at age 51.

1986 The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes flight from Edwards Air Force Base (CA) on the first non-stop, self-contained (i.e., no aerial refueling) flight around the world.

1988 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures

1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)

1989 Andrei D. Sakharov, author and Nobel laureate, dies in Moscow at age 68.

1989 Movie actor Jock Mahoney (Dallas, Tarzan) dies at age 70.

1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later

1991 476 die when the ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea.

1991 Desmond Howard of Michigan wins the Heisman trophy

1993 Actress Myrna Loy dies at age 88.

1995 After sixty-nine grueling days on the picket line, machinists for the Boeing Company gave the go-ahead to a new contract on this day in 1995

1998 IXC Communications announced it had turned on a new coast-to-coast data network that it hoped would serve as the backbone for the next generation Internet

1911 Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, becomes the first man to reach the South Pole

1987 In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed

1503 The birth of Nostradamus, French astrologer who published his prophecies in 1555

1866 The birth of Roger Fry, English painter and critic

1935 The birth of Lee Remick, American actress

2007 FAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand.

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