1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1970 The October Crisis in Canada

1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew Resigns

1973 VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns

1974 Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles

1975 Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)

1976 Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7 33

1976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens

1978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published

1978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B Anthony dollar

1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Zone

1980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria

1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated

1981 Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo

1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint

1983 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM

1985 Orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70

1985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody

1985 Yul Brynner actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 70

1986 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador

1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns

1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"

1990 Dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56

1990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space

1991 A former US postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey

1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers

1991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy

1992 Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands

1993 Socialists regain power in Greece

1961 The entire population of Tristan de Cunha is evacuated, following a volcanic eruption on the South Atlantic island

1813 The birth of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer

1920 The birth of Thelonius Monk, Celebrated US Jazz pianist and composer

1946 The birth of Chris Tarrant, British TV show creator (who wants to be a millionaire)

2005 Death of Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)

2006 Google buys YouTube for USD$1.65 billion

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