1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession

1972 HS-2, HS-15, HS-74 and HS-75 came to the aid of flood stricken residents in the Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and Pottstown areas of Pennsylvania

1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history

1972 Nixon &Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate

1972 Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs

1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens

1979 The Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"

1979 The rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"

1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes first American to win Russian Ballet Competition

1981 NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy

1982 All time low at the South Pole -117ø F

1982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)

1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die

1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House

1987 W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann

1989 The movie "Batman" premiers

1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty

1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of the year

1991 Tony Randall &Jack Klugman star in Bdwy performance of Odd Couple

1951 British diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two soviet spies, flee to the USSR

1956 Colonel Nasser elected as President in Egypt

1973 The Pope opens the vatican gallery of modern art

1763 The birth of Josephine de Beauharnais, Wife of Napoleon

1910 The birth of Jean Anouilh, French playwright

1912 The birth of Alan Turing, Founder of computer science

2006 In Miami, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests seven men, accusing them of planning to bomb the Sears Tower and other attacks in Miami.

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | Next Page »