1988 Gabe Dell actor, dies at 68 of leukemia

1988 U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued a statement to the world, and an apology to the Iranian people, “I am saddened to report that it appears that in a proper defensive action by the "USS Vincennes" this morning in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian airliner was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz ... We greatly regret any loss of life ...” (290 died when the "Vincennes" fired upon Iran Air Flight 655, mistaking the plane for a hostile F-14 fighter plane.)

1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

1989 Andrei Gromyko Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday

1989 Jim Backus actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia

1989 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8 05.39) in Stockholm

1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions

1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)

1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring

1608 Quebec, Canada founded by Samuel Champlain

1863 Battle of Gettysbeurg, during the American Civil War, ends

1928 First color TV transmission, made by John Logie Baird

1988 US warship in the Gulf accidently shoots down Iranian airliner

1883 The birth of Franz Kafka, Czech author

1927 The birth of Ken Russell, British film director

1937 The birth of Tom Stoppard, British writer/playwirght

1962 The birth of Tom Cruise, American actor

2007 Torrential rains cause the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history.

2007 Torrential rains cause the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history.

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