1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat

1983 Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion

1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran

1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus

1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213

1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth

1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty premiers

1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts

1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)

1993 John Connally, the former Texas governor wounded when President John F. Kennedy was killed, dies at age 76.

1844 Vulcanised rubber patented by Charles Goodyear

1972 75,000 attend gathering of religious leader Billy Graham, in Texas

1977 General elections held in Spain, the first since 1936

1884 The birth of Harry Langdon, American silent film star

2007 Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | Next Page »