1976 Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24

1978 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds smacked his 3,000th major-league hit.

1979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting

1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter

1980 Saipan and other Navy ships provided humanitarian search and rescue support operations for the vast sealift of Cuban refugees heading for the U.S. through the Florida Straits.

1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building

1982 Stanley Cup New York Islanders beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 0

1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1985 The first husband and wife team to win a major marathon, Ken and Lisa Maratin, won over $50,000 for their first-place finishes in the Pittsburgh Marathon.

1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings

1987 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1988 Eugene Antonio Marino became the first black Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States.

1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY

1990 Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia

1992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection

1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections

1994 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen

1995 Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)

1995 Official CN opening ceremony for a new tunnel between Sarnia, Ont and Port Huron, MI. The tunnel can handle full height double stack container cars.

1996 Renette Cruz, Vancouver British Columbia, wins Miss Canadian Universe

1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV

1997 Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful

1751 The Portuguese government takes steps to curb the Inquisitions powers

1942 Battle of Coral Sea

1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American into space

1988 A live broadcast from the top of Mt Everest is made for the first time, by Japanese TV

1512 The birth of Geradus Mercator, German map maker

2005 The United Kingdom votes in the 205 general election. The Labour Party is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority.

2005 Two homemade bombs explode outside the British consulate in New York, USA.2006 NASA astronomers announce the discovery of a storm system in the Jovian atmosphere, dubbed the Red Spot Junior.

2006 Fiat chairman Sergio marionne announces that the Alfa Romeo automobile brand will return to the United States in 2008, after a 13-year hiatus.

2007 Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.

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