1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants

1977 Billy Martin &Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation

1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747

1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd &John Belushi premiers

1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2891 McGetchin

1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2569 Madeline

1980 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec

1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride first US woman

1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC

1983 Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman in space.

1984 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3541

1986 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon

1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion

1991 Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died

1815 Battle of Waterloo, where British General Wellington defeats French Emperor Napoleon

1898 First ever steel pier opens in the United States

1983 Sally Ride becomes the first US woman in space onboard the space shuttle.

1886 The birth of George Mallory, English mountaineer

1937 The birth of John D. Rockerfeller IV, American millionaire

1952 The birth of Isabella Rosselini, Italian born film actress

2006 The first Kazakh space satellite "KazSat" is launched.

2007 Three people are injured and one dead in a shooting near Flinders St in Melbourne.

2007 Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.

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