1989 The first sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral

1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 performances

1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president

1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide

1991 A Saudi transport plane trying to land in bad weather and heavy smoke from burning Kuwaiti oil wells crashes, killing 92 Senegalese soldiers and six Saudi crew.

1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome

1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship

1991 The Canadian Supreme Court rules 9-0 that the fetus is not a legal person

1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq

1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint

1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl

1994 66th Academy Awards "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win

1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend

1997 World Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)

1998 Australian cricket team suffers its worst defeat in 60 years, beaten by an innings and 219 runs by India in Calcutta

1918 Offensive on the Somme begins, the last major offensive of World War I

1963 Alcatraz, maximum security prison on the island in San Francisco Bay, closes after 29 years

1685 The birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer

1869 The birth of Florenz Ziegfield, American impresario

1946 The birth of Timothy Dalton, English actor

1963 The birth of Matthew Broderick, American actor

2005 10 killed in the Red Lake High School massacre in Minnesota, the worst school shooting since the Columbine High School massacre.

2006 Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Laila Freivalds resigns after over a year of criticism.

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