1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands

1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin

1949 A Sikorsky helicopter flew from NAS Seattle to NAS Alameda in 10 hours and 50 minutes and unofficially bettered the existing distance record for helicopters with a flight of 755 miles.

1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking

1954 First meteorite ( 8 lb ) known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga AL)

1954 The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes a woman on the hip

1958 First guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me

1959 Joe Foss named first commissioner of AFL

1960 The First International Harvester Scoutt all-terrain vehicle rolled off the assembly line at International Harvester's Fort Wayne plant

1961 USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership

1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously

1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned

1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, MD to Boulder, CO

1967 In Albania a 6.5 quake centered centered along the Albania-Yugoslavia border in the vicinity of Debar, Yugoslavia, and Shupenze, Albania. Eighteen people were killed, 204 injured

1967 Julie Nixon andDavid Eisenhower announce their engagement

1967 Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman

1967 People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain

1968 Diana Ross and The Supremes hit the #1 spot on the music charts with Love Child. The somewhat controversial tune (for the times) stayed at the top for two weeks

1970 George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"

1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"

1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)

1974 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)

1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)

1981 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges

1982 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad

1982 The Dow Jones industrial average jumped a mighty 36.43 points. It was the fourth largest gain in the stock market’s 87-year history.

1982 US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea

1983 Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)

1988 A group of some of the world's most powerful companies engaged in a protracted struggle to acquire a rather hefty prize--RJR Nabisco.

1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed

1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase

1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 years

1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa

1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke

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