1964 The first surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"

1965 46.18 cm (18.18") of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)

1967 Race riots in Memphis Tenn

1968 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the first heavy metal song to hit the charts, it comes in at #117

1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV

1969 At 10 56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, nearly 240,000 miles from earth, spoke these words to millions listening at home

1969 The first men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11

1970 The first baby born on Alcatraz Island

1974 Allen Jenkins actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74

1974 Turkey invades Cyprus

1976 On the seventh anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe

1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, first Martian landing

1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage

1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash

1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks

1983 Frank Reynolds news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59

1984 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m

1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha

1986 Helen Craig actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74

1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee

1989 93ø F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona

1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years

1991 Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate NY

1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant

1996 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia

1998 On this day in 1998, Attorneys General from 20 states dropped some of their antitrust charges against Microsoft, narrowing their focus in the antitrust case.

1969 Man first walks on the moon, brings back lots of rocks.

1974 Turkish forces invade the island of Cyprus

1925 The birth of Jaques Delors, French politician

1938 The birth of Dianna Rigg, English actress

2005 Canada's Civil Marriage Act, legalizing same-sex marriage, receives Royal Assent.

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