1967 Che Guevara executed in Bolivia

1968 Government seizes oil fields in Peru

1969 Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"

1970 Cambodia becomes the Khmer Republic.

1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence

1973 Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years

1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF

1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock

1980 Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot

1980 The first consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)

1983 4 South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma

1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space

1985 Hijackers of the cruise liner Achille Lauro surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.

1986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals

1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

1989 Penthouse Magazine's hebrew edition hits the newstands

1989 Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reports that a spaceship, with a crew of three extra-terrestrials, lands in a city park in Voronezh.

1990 Radio stations around the world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon

1990 Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile

1940 Winston Churchill elected head of the Conservative party

1908 The birth of Jacques Tati, French actor, screenwriter and director

1940 The birth of John Lennon, Former member of 'The Beatles'

2005 Polish presidential election, 1st round.

2005 Death of Louis Nye, American comedy-actor (b. 1913)

2006 North Korea claims to have conducted its first ever nuclear test.

2007 An election is held in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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