1964 Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show

1965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace

1965 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang

1966 The first Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2

1967 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne

1968 Soyuz 3 launched

1968 The Flushing Meadow Park Zoo opens in New York City.

1969 In Yugoslavia a 5.6 severe earthquake in the Banja Luka area of Yugoslavia killed 20, seriously injured 150, and left 65,000 homeless

1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China

1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin

1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam

1973 Wings release "Helen Wheels"

1975 Anwar Sadat becomes the first Egyptian president to visit the United States.

1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa

1976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic

1977 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise

1977 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY

1984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days

1985 Montreal constable Jacinthe Fyfe is the first Canadian female police officer killed on duty.

1985 The Mutijuli Aboriginal Community is granted freehold title to Ayers Rock and the Uluru National Park in the Northern Territory.

1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points

1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads

1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service

1988 US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK

1995 The CN commuter line between Montréal Central station and Deux Montagnes is reopened with modernized equipment. The new electric multiple unit trains, operating at 25 kv AC, replace aging equipment, some of it going back to the opening of the line in 1918.

1999 "Pinocchio" becomes the first animated classic to make its way to DVD

1999 Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

2000 An Ilyushin-18 aircraft ploughs into a mountain in ex-Soviet Georgia, killing more than 80 people.

1989 The re-built Globe Theatre in London reopens for the first time in 350 years

1879 The birth of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader

1942 The birth of Bob Hoskins, British actor of stage and screen

2005 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns peace process.

2005 The U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,00.

2005 The Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros in 4 games to win their first World Series since 1917.

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