1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia

1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns

1943 Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US

1945 Thirteen people are killed when a B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building.

1945 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die

1945 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2

1945 USS Callaghan (DD-792) is last ship sunk by a Japanese kamikaze attack, off Okinawa.

1948 I.G. Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die

1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released

1959 Hawaii's first US election sends first Asian-Americans to Congress

1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon

1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa

1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean

1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures

1967 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down

1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning

1973 Launch of Skylab 3, the second manned mission to the first U.S. manned space station, was piloted by MAJ Jack R. Lousma, USMC with CAPT Alan L. Bean, USN as the Commander of the mission and former Navy electronics officer, Owen K. Garriott as Science Pilot. The mission lasted 59 days, 11 hours and included 858 Earth orbits. Recovery by USS New Orleans (LPH-11).

1973 Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched

1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)

1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake

1976 Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph

1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks

1977 The first oil flow through the Alaska pipeline

1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY

1978 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3188 & #3422

1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for first time

1980 Fernando Bela£nde Terry becomes president of Peru

1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated

1987 Angel Cordero Jr becomes the 4th jockey to win 6,000 races

1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for first visit in 21 years

1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank

1988 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz

1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson

1990 Blackout hits Chicago

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