1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back

1951 David Rappaport actorwas born L.A. Law, Peter Gunn, The Wizard, The Bride, Mysteries

1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia

1958 One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel was broadcast on CBS radio and starred John Dehner as Paladin. Richard Boone played Paladin on TV.

1958 Ronald and Nancy Reagan appeared together in the GE Theatre production of A Turkey for the President.

1959 "Fiorello!" premiers on Broadway

1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched

1963 Horatio Alger Society founded

1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House

1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" &"She's a Woman"

1969 The first space-to-ground news conference was telecast this day. Reporters in Houston submitted written questions to a lieutenant at the Houston NASA base, who read them to astronauts aboard Apollo 12.

1970 Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird discloses the November 21U.S. raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp at Son Tay. The raid was conducted almost flawlessly, but no prisoners of war were found in the camp. They had been moved earlier to other locations.

1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council

1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral

1980 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy

1982 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6

1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta

1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China

1987 The Chicago Board of Trade took its own precautionary steps, implementing a daily price ceiling on the Major Market Index future, as well as the Institutional Index future

1988 South Africa Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six

1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal

1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines

1991 Evander Hollyfield retains HW boxing title, KOs Bert Cooper in 7

1642 The Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman, discovers Van Dieman's Land (later to be re-named Tasmania)

1859 The birth of Billy The Kid, Born William Bonny; legendary US outlaw

1887 The birth of Boris Karloff, English actor

2006 Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian KGB agent, is killed by Polonium-210 in a London sushi bar.

2006 A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kill at least 215 people and injure 257 others.

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | Next Page »