1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))

1966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1

1969 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA

1970 "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release

1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)

1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)

1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"

1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays

1980 Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried

1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC

1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1

1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups

1984 $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit

1984 In Southern Italy a 5.8 earthquake killed three people and at least 100 injured, and extensive damage in the Abruzzo area

1986 In the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 8.0 multiple event quake Damage (VI) on Adak and Atka.Tsunami generated with observed wave heights 91 to 122 cm at Kapaa, Kauai and 61 to 91 cm at Hanalei, Kauai and along the coast of Washington

1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires

1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers

1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet

1989 On the Burma-China Border Region a 5.6 quake killed at least 1 person, 91 injured and 5,300 houses destroyed in the Gengma area, China

1989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency

1991 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs

1992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine

1992 Claude Morin admits to Radio Canada that he was a paid RCMP informant from 1974 to 1977

1992 Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes

1992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)

1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections

1994 Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen

1994 Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)

1994 Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)

1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election

1996 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown

1997 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants

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