1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp

1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy

1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary

1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court

1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as first hispanic/female US surgeon general

1990 In St. John's Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord; approved by the previous Peckford administration; this will effectively kill the Accord

1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit

1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs

1994 IRA launch first of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport

1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays

1995 In the Atlantic, Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin orders Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit

1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)

1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns

1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs the US novelist, author of the 'Tarzan' books, dies

1933 The birth of Philip Roth, American novelist

2005 Death of Jeanette Schmid, world famous professional whistler (b. 1924)

2005 Death of Chris LeDoux, Rodeo world champion and counrty singer (b. 1949)2006 NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.

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