1976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station

1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut

1980 Gail Patrick actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69

1982 Russell Thorson actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72

1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

1987 The first of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India

1988 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico

1988 Off Scotland, two Canadians among 167 crew members killed as gas leak leads to explosion and fire on the Occidental Petroleum drill rig Piper Alpha in the North Sea; 64 survivors rescued.

1989 After 9 years, WHOT (Bkln pirate radio station) is busted by the FCC

1990 "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premiers

1990 In Java a 5.8 quake injured at least 103 people and about 10,300 houses, mosques and public buildings damaged or destroyed

1990 In Ottawa Ontario, a burst pipe at National Archives damages 100 atlases dating between 1490 and 1600, 2,000 books; and a collection of 150 year old manuscripts.

1991 Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini for Wimbeldon championship

1994 Gary Kildall, software pioneer, killed in bar brawl Gary Kildall, inventor of an early personal computer operating system, was killed in a brawl at a biker bar in Monterey, California, on this day in 1994

1535 Sir Thomas Moore beheaded for treason on Tower Hill, London

1885 First anti rabies vaccine used, developed by Louis Pasteur

1964 Nyasaland becomes the independent state of Malawi

1986 A coup led by pro-Marcos supporters in the Philippines fails

1785 The birth of John Paul Jones, American War of Independence hero

1796 The birth of Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia

1925 The birth of Janet Leigh, American film actress

1935 The birth of Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader

2005 The European Parliament rejects the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading in the codecision procedure.

2005 The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Summer Olympics to London.

2009 Jadranka Kosor became fir female Prime minier of Croatia.

2009 Jadranka Kosor became fir female Prime minier of Croatia.

2009 Jadranka Kosor became fir female Prime minier of Croatia.

2009 Jadranka Kosor became fir female Prime minier of Croatia.

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