1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos

1973 I response to the 1973 oil crisis, President Richard M. Nixon called for a Sunday ban on the sale of gasoline to consumers.

1974 U Thant UN Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65

1975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)

1976 OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit

1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity

1977 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins

1977 Richard Carlson actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65

1978 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275

1978 Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight

1980 Statistics Canada anounces the population of Canada has passed 24 million and that Alberta has 2.1 million

1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship

1981 Jack Albertson actor (Chico &the Man), dies at 74

1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off

1983 Syria &Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli

1983 World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England

1984 William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart

1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal

1987 Harold Washington 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65

1988 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges

1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed

1988 US &Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson &Akhmilovskaya wed

1988 Widespread earthquake hits NE US, Canada; no damage reported

1990 Bill Vukovich Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27

1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election

1994 Thanks to an ill-fated decision to acquire Columbia Pictures, electronics giant Sony Corp. floundered through the early 1990s, and the company's woes threatened to grow worse when founderAkio Morita announced his decision to step down as CEO.

1996 America Online announced it would sell its WebCrawler search engine to Excite.

1996 Buoyed by booming confidence in the dollar, as well as dwindling interest rates on U.S. Treasury Bonds, the Dow charged past the magic 6.500 point for the first time in history

1998 Flip (Clerow) Wilson Emmy Award-winning comedy writer died

1963 JFK buried at Arlington National Cemetery

1844 The birth of Karl Friedrich Benz, German engineer

1914 The birth of Joe Dimaggio, American baseball player

2005 Death of George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)

2005 Death of Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)

2006 Steve Bracks wins the Victorian state election.

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