1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1963 A first, a live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 Rebellion ends in Zaire
1966 400 die of respiratory failure &heart attack in killer NYC smog
1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1969 U.S. Army officials announce 1st Lt. William Calley will be court-martialed for the premeditated murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
1971 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ
1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians &Lebanese
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1991 The first international flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched
1992 Chinese air crash kills 141
1997 In response to a 554.26 point free fall, New York Stock Exchange officials invoked the "circuit breake" rule and puts a halt to trading
1997 RealNetworks, an Internet pioneer that developed streaming audio and video technology, launched a public offering on this day in 1997. The company, once co-owned by Microsoft and formerly called Progressive Networks, reaped more than $500 million on its first day of trading.
1998 A federal judge ruled that a Virginia library constitutionally could not block Internet pornography from library computers
1998 On this day in 1998, America Online officially announced it would acquire Netscape Communications
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by Jack Ruby
1849 The birth of Frances Burnett, British novelist
1925 The birth of Alun Owen, American script writer
2005 The Licensing Act 203 comes into force in England and Wales, introducing flexibility in the hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold.
2005 Death of Pat Morita, Japanese American actor (b. 1932)
2006 Michael Stone is arrested for breaking into the parliament buildings at Stormont while armed. Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair's deadline on Northern Ireland power-sharing.
2007 Australian Labor Party wins the federal election in Australia; Labor leader Kevin Rudd is elected to succeed John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia.
2007 Police broke up anti-Putin demonstrations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
