1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space

1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

1997 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch

1702 The 'Daily Courant', the first successful English newspaper, was first published. It consisted of only 1 sheet

1983 Donald Maclean, spy and associate of Guy Burgess, buried in Moscow

1990 Lithuania declares its independence from the USSR

1898 The birth of Dorothy Gish, Silent screen star

2005 In the UK, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 205 was finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.

2005 Three people, including a judge, are murdered in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia; the main suspect, Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.2006 Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the first female President of Chile.

2006 Slobodan Miloševic is found dead in his cell in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague.

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