1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich &Ohio

1959 X-15 makes first unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m

1960 First date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam

1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon

1967 34 U.S. servicemen are killed when Israeli warplanes mistakenly attack the Navy ship Liberty stationed in the Mediterranean.

1968 Gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"

1968 James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport.

1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted

1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones

1972 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230

1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35

1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing

1979 The Source, first computer public information service, goes online

1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album

1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament

1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria

1995 U.S. Air Force Capt. Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines, after having to survive alone for several days when his F-16 fighter was shot down.

2000 Pultizer Prize Winning cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, creator of the comic strip Shoe, dies of cancer at age 52.

1969 Spain closes its border with Gibraltar

1986 Kurt Waldheim, former Nazi, chosen as the new Austrian president

1990 Czechoslovakia's first free elections in 44 years

1625 The birth of Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer

1772 The birth of Robert Stevenson, English engineer

1810 The birth of Robert Schumann, German composer

1967 The birth of Frank LLoyd Wright, American architect

2005 Birth of Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

2007 The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.

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