1964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim

1965 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway

1965 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline

1967 The BBC broadcasts "The Magical Mystery Tour"

1971 Air Canada jet on flight from Thunder Bay to Toronto hijacked to Cuba.

1972 Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the U.S., dies in Kansas City, Missouri.

1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours

1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth

1974 Television and radio comedian Jack Benny dies in Los Angeles at age 80.

1975 Russia begins the world's first supersonic air transport service with its Tupolev-144 run from Moscow to Alma-Ata.

1976 In St. John's Newfoundland a nursing home fire kills 21 elderly residents.

1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail

1985 Ford introduced the Taurus line of auto's,, the product of years of engineering

1986 M Montreal Canadien Doug Jarvis, age 31, sets a National Hockey League record as he skates in his 916th consecutive game

1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run

1989 A provisional government takes control of Romania, following the secret trial and execution of President Nicolae Ceausescu.

1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship

1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction (the gun used to kill Harvey Oswald)

1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India

1991 Toronto Ontario Northwest Airlines buys 20 Dash 8 Series 100 aircraft from de Haviland for $190 million; division of Boeing Canada.

1994 French commandos storm a hijacked Air France jet on the ground in Marseille, freeing 170 hostages and killing the Algerian hijackers.

1996 Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado, home. The killing remains unsolved.

1999 R&B artist Curtis Mayfield dies in an Atlanta hospital at age 57. Mayfield, famous for the Superfly soundtrack, had been paralyzed since 1990 during an onstage accident.

1898 Radium, the radioactive element, discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie

1716 The birth of Thomas Gray, English Poet

1891 The birth of Henry Miller, US novellist

1893 The birth of Mao Tse-tung, Chinese communist leader

2005 Death of Kerry Packer, Australian Media tycoon (b. 1937)

2005 Death of Vincent Schiavelli, American character actor (b. 1948)

2005 Indonesians mark the first moments of the tsunami wave that came ashore exactly a year earlier, with thousands of people commemorating victims and relatives in many ceremonies.

2006 An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos killing at least 200 people.

2006 The Hengchun earthquake in Taiwan kills two people, damaged about 15 historical buildings and several undersea cable, disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia.

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