1968 Supremes andTemptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"

1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage

1969 Baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. is born

1969 The first ARPANET link was put into service on this day in 1969. The network connected a computer at the University of California at Los Angeles with one at the Stanford Research Institute.

1970 The rarest of Ford Mustangs--the Boss 351--debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan.

1973 18 minute gap found in Watergate Tapes

1973 Allan Sherman singer, dies at 48 (Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah)

1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped

1977 First flight of the Concorde (London to New York)

1977 The first flight of the Concorde between London and New York

1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating

1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84

1980 John &Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum

1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 &stays for 10 weeks

1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations

1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris

1995 The Dow Jones closes over 5000 fo rthe first time

1995 Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated movie, was released on this day

1996 CompuServe announced it would shut down its family-oriented service, WOW!, just eight months after it was launched

1783 A Montgolfier brothers hot-air balloon, takes Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, 500ft above Paris

1953 Skull of Piltdown Man, long believed to be the missing link, proved to be a hoax

1888 The birth of Harpo Marx, American comedian

1922 The birth of Telly Savalas, American actor

1943 The birth of Jacques Laffite, French Grand Prix driver

1945 The birth of Goldie Hawn, American actress

2005 The Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon announces his resignation from Likud and his intention to form a new party devoted to peace in the region, Kadima, and asks the President of Israel to call a general election.

2006 Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanon's Minister of Industry, is assassinated in Beirut.

2006 Israel's Supreme Court finds that Israel must recognize and register same-gender marriages celebrated in other countries.

2006 A gas explosion in the coal mine Halemba in Ruda Slaska, Poland, kills 23 miners approximately 1,000 meters below ground.

2007 Senegalese street vendors riot in Dakar after government attempts to ban them from operating in the center of the capital city.

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