1954 Ellis Island, the U.S. immigration processing center located in New York Harbor, closes today. Since it opened in 1892, it had processed more than 20 million immigrants.

1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted

1956 Morocco, Sudan, and Tunista join the United Nations.

1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails

1961 Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci is born

1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH

1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus

1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame

1970 Charles de Gaulle is buried in Paris

1977 New Orleans elects first black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial

1979 US halts Iranian oil imports &freezes Iranian assets

1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana

1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn

1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)

1981 First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)

1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader, but not for long

1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas

1984 Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"

1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite first space salvage

1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to the launch pad

1985 The province of Ontario looses its Standard & Poors triple A credit rating

1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine

1989 Brazil holds first free presidential election in 29 years

1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born

1995 Canadian Chris Hadfield flys on the space shuttle as mission specialist

1981 US space shuttle Columbia, first space vehicle to make a second trip, launched

1982 Yuri Andropov becomes soviet leader, succeeding Mr Brezhnev

1840 The birth of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor

1911 The birth of Rev. Chad Varah, Founder of the 'Samaritans'

1929 The birth of Grace Kelly, American actress/Princess Grace of Monaco

2005 United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to Iraq since Gulf War II began and urges Iraqis to embrace a process aiming to reconcile all the country's ethnic and religious groups.

2006 Gerald Ford surpasses Ronald Reagan as the longest lived President of the United States.

2006 The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.

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