1975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin

1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth

1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama

1980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days

1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)

1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum

1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England

1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

1984 Kathryn D. Sullivan of the US is the first female astronaut to walk in spaceoct12

1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208

1984 VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R)

1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

1985 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands

1986 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland

1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington

1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum

1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature

1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel

1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her

1919 The first ever 'inflight' meals are served on a flight from London to Paris

1980 Russian cosmonauts return to earth, after spending a record 185 days in space

1982 After 437 years, the remains of Henry VIII ship the 'Mary Rose' are raised from the seabed

1844 The birth of Henry John Heinz, American food manufacturer

1884 The birth of Eleanor Roosevelt, Wife of former President F.D Roosevelt

1928 The birth of Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and film scorer

2006 New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle is killed, along with his flight instructor, when his plane crashes into a building in New York City's Upper East Side

2007 A small private plane crashes into a house in the Fontibon neighborhood near the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing 5 on board and 2 in the house.

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