1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom

1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of the Today Show

1961 Ty Cobb Detroit Tiger hall of fame baseball player, dies at 75

1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)

1962 Senate rejects medicare for the aged

1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)

1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)

1966 Pioneer 7 launched

1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act

1967 Race riots in Cairo Illinois

1968 Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premiers in London

1968 Revolt in Iraq

1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC

1972 The first 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico

1974 John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days

1974 The first quadrophinic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues

1975 Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make first US/USSR linkup in space

1975 Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce

1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montréal

1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3 49 mile in Oslo

1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president

1981 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta

1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens

1981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured

1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7

1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)

1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 100m woman's record (10.49)

1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103ø F (39ø C)

1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"

1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

1998 In Papua New Guinea a 7.1 earthquake killed at least 2,183 people, thousands injured, about 9,500 homeless and about 500 missing as a result of a tsunami generated in the Sissano area. Maximum wave heights estimated at 10 meters

1955 Disneyland opens in Los Angeles, CA

1975 The US and USSR link up in space, with the Apollo Soyuz mission

1980 Military coup in Bolivia

1763 The birth of John Jacob Astor, US millionaire

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