1979 Hope Summers actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78

1981 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life

1983 -128ø F (-89ø C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record)

1983 Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world

1983 Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law

1986 House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion

1987 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)

1987 US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf

1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research

1988 Luigi Lucioni Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87

1990 Greg Lemond of US wins bicycling's 3rd tour de France

1990 Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship

1991 Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested by police in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1994 O.J. Simpson pleads innocent to mmurdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

1969 Prince Juan Carlos named as the future king of Spain by General Franco

1478 The birth of King Philip I of Spain

2005 A Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead at a London underground station by police who mistake him for a suicide bomber.

2007 Floods cause chaos through wide areas of Britain, especially the counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, leaving hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads.

2007 Parliamentary elections took place in Turkey.

2007 Yokozuna Asashoryu conquers the Emperor's Cup at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament (Nagoya Basho) in Nagoya, Japan.

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