1979 "Beatlemania" opens in London

1989 US 62nd manned space mission (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit

1898 Puerto Rico formerly taken over by America, from the Spanish

1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is officially formed

1925 The birth of Melina Mercouri, Actress who became Greek Minister of Culture

1927 The birth of George C Scott, American actor and director

1939 The birth of Lee Harvey Oswald, Presumed assassin of President J F Kennedy

1961 The birth of Wynton Marsalis, Jazz trumpeter

2005 The UN tightens the rules for its staff, following several claims of financial impropriety and sexual abuse.

2006 Microsoft publicly releases Windows Internet Explorer 7.

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing 136 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.

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