1969 Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car

1970 Barry Wood singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61

1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka

1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118

1974 Joe Flynn actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59

1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate

1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands

1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo

1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill

1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza

1979 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW

1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott

1980 David Bowie appears in role of Elephant Man in Denver

1982 David S Dodge becomes the first American hostage in Lebanon

1984 Carol Eberts Veazie actor, dies at 89

1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination

1984 The first female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen first schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle

1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass

1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa

1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies

1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion

1990 Herbert Nelson actor (Guilding Light), dies at 76 of a stroke

1990 Johnny Wayne comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies at 72 of cancer

1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif

1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

1903 The first ever 'Tour de France' cycle race ends

1949 Laos independence

1989 General Jaruzelski appointed President of Poland

1991 The South African government admits funding the Zulus to undermine the ANC

1896 The birth of A.J Cronin, Scottish novelist

1918 The birth of Samuel Colt, US inventor of the Colt 45 revolver

2005 Death of John Tyndall, British activist (b. 1934)

2005 President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.

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