1957 Carlos Armas, president of Guatemala, is assassinated.

1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200

1957 USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile

1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV

1959 C Hoffmeister discovers asteroid #2183

1963 US Syncom 2, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched

1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy

1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die

1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes first lady to solo sail the Pacific

1971 Apollo 15, a manned lunar expedition, is launched.

1971 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #1836 Komarov

1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3

1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth

1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)

1981 2 climbers rappell 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela

1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2845 Franklinken & #2882 Tedesco

1981 NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant

1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket

1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8

1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco

1988 Tlesa Ann Meadowcroft is born Salt Lake City, Utah

1990 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode

1990 US beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games

1991 Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater

1999 "Eagles Hell Freezers" Over becomes the best selling music DVD

1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed

1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal Company

1957 USA test launch first ICBM

1856 The birth of George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright

1894 The birth of Aldous Huxley, English novelist

1928 The birth of Stanley Kubrick, British director

2005 Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery "Return To Flight" mission STS-114. This is the first Space Shuttle flight in nearly two and a half years since the breakup of Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.

2005 Mumbai and Mumbai Conurbation area was submerged in 5-7 ft water due to heavy rains and making nearby dams release water causing massive flood, which virtually stopped the financial capital of India for 4-5 days.

2005 Death of Robert C. Turner, American potter (b. 1913)

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