1957 Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03 28 08)

1960 205,000 (sports attendance record) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer

1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m

1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)

1969 Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched

1973 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2964

1976 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years

1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit

1981 Harry Chapin dies at 39, when his car is rear-ended

1981 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously

1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth

1982 Patrick Dewaere actor, dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound

1983 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident

1985 Wayne King orch leader, dies at 84

1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec

1988 Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds

1988 Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan

1988 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton

1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines

1990 An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale devastated the Philippines, killing over 1600 people. A thousand more were missing. Damage was reported in Manila, Cabanatuan, Baguio and Luzon. It was the worst earthquake in that part of the world since 1976.

1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities

1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premiers on ABC-TV

1991 Frank Rizzo (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies at 70

1661 The Bank of Stockholm issues Europe's first bank notes

1945 First atomic bomb test, in New Mexico, USA

1965 The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France and Italy, opens

1969 Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing, launched

1907 The birth of Barbra Stanwick, American film actress

1911 The birth of Ginger Rogers, American film actress/dancer

2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book of the Harry Potter saga by the British writer J. K. Rowling, is released.

2007 Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.

2007 Britain expels four Russian diplomats in response to a refusal by the Russians to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, suspected to be behind the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London.

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