1923 Calgary Alberta, Guy Weadick holds first Chuckwagon Race at the Stampede, persuading 6 local ranchers to risk their wagons and horses in what will be billed as 'the half mile of hell'

1927 Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia

1944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance. 168 die. (Hartford Conn)

1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement

1948 Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve

1950 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)

1951 Harry Heilmann baseball outfielder (Det), dies at 56

1951 Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany

1953 The first helicopter passenger service (NYC)

1955 Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart

1956 Dick Clark's first appearance as host of American Bandstand

1957 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced

1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain

1968 39.83 cm (15.68") of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record)

1968 Allyn Edwards host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53

1968 John Indrisano actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62

1971 In Chile a 7.5 quaked killed 84 people, 447 injured, and 40,000 made homeless by this earthquake. The earthquake was centered 75 miles northwest of Santiago

1972 The first tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France)

1973 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel

1975 In Western Minnesota a 5.0 earthquake was the largest historical quake in Minnesota

1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe

1977 Dr Loren Eiseley prof of Anthropology (Animal Secrets), dies at 69

1978 American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago

1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2530 Shipka

1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA

1979 Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab

1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter

1980 7 die in a stampede to see the pope in Brazil

1980 Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" released

1981 The Jacksons begin a 36-city tour

1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster

1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, La, killing 153

1985 Rafael Campos actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49

1988 "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble

1988 Barbara Woodhouse dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke

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