1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)

1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; first lunar soft-landing

1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston

1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam)

1972 Dion & the Belmonts reunion concert at Madison Square Garden

1975 James A Healy, first black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)

1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City

1979 John Paul II becomes first pope to visit a communist country (Poland)

1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198

1979 Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland -- the first-ever visit by a pontiff to a Communist country.

1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be

1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinatti

1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical masectomy

1984 B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3617

1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines

1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token

1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins

1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee

1989 Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith

1990 Rex Harrison actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 82 of cancer

1990 Robert Noyce co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founded Intel, dies

1793 Jean-Paul Marat, reciting the names of 29 "enemies of the republic", kicks of the French reign of terror.

1865 The last members of the American conferedate forces surrender, ending the American civil war.

1896 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

1953 Summit of Everest reached for the first time

1953 Coronation of British Queen Elizabeth II

1740 The birth of Marquis de Sade, French author

1840 The birth of Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet

1903 The birth of Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and 'Tarzan'

1942 The birth of Barry Levinson, American film director

2005 The construction of Northrop Grumman X-47B, the world's first unmanned surveillance attack aircraft that can operate from both land bases and aircraft carriers, was launched.

2007 Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York.[13]

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