1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km

1967 The Broadway play "Hair" is first performed

1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth

1973 5 month oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins

1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament

1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of the 4 hijackers

1979 1,800 Marines landed in Guantanamo Bay as a demonstration of naval power in the wake of the Soviet refusal to withdraw the Russian combat brigade in Cuba.

1979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1 20 06.8

1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

1987 First World Series game in a covered stadium in Minnesota Metrodome

1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome

1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft

1989 Earthquake in SF (6.9) kills 67

1995 Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment is declared the oldest living person, with a proven age of 120 years and 238 days

1998 A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. At least 700 die

1999 Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.)

2000 Pope John Paul and Britain's Queen Elizabeth meet and speak of their hopes for Christian unity. It is her first visit to the Vatican in 20 years

1980 Mount St Helens, in Washington State USA, erupts for the third time in 24 hours

1982 The outlawing of the 'Solidarity' labour movement causes widespread strikes and demonstrations in Poland

1988 Scottish scientist James Black awarded the Nobel prize for his work on treating angina and blood pressure

1885 The birth of Baroness Karen Blixen, Danish author

1939 The birth of Evel Knievel, Record breaker and stunt man

2005 Jens Stoltenberg becomes the Prime Minister of Norway for the second time.

2006 The United States population reaches 300 million based on a United States Census Bureau projection.

2007 Whitehaven, England becomes the first place in the United Kingdom to have one of its analogue terrestrial television signals switched off as part of digital switchover.

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