1962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 Ringo Starr takes and passes his driving test
1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
1971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1981 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 Poland bans Solidarity
1988 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 US doctors Joseph E Murray and E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1991 A colonial-era burial site for African-American slaves is discovered in New York by construction crew
1871 A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'
1895 The birth of Juan Peron, Argentine general, and former President
1941 The birth of Jesse Jackson, American civic leader and clergyman
1949 The birth of Sigourney Weaver, American actress
2005 An earthquake in Kashmir kills about 80,00 people.
2007 Track and field star Marion Jones surrenders her five Olympic medals she won in the 2000 Sydney Games after admitting to doping.
2007 Track and field star Marion Jones surrenders her five Olympic medals she won in the 2000 Sydney Games after admitting to doping.
