1960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16

1960 Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6

1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published

1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY

1964 Town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee

1966 National Organization of Women founded

1966 The National Organization for Women is founded.

1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills first

1979 50 years after the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protestors fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted

1982 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"

1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title

1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics

1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive

1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi

1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)

1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria

1994 Francisco Martin Duran fires more than two dozen shots at the White House, and is later sentenced to 40 years in prison.

1863 International Red Cross founded by Henri Dunant

1929 Black Tuesday' New York's Wall Street crash

1989 The African National Congress(ANC) first political rally for almost thirty years is attended by 70,000 supporters

1740 The birth of James Boswell, Scottish biographer and diarist

1897 The birth of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda chief

1947 The birth of Richard Dreyfuss, American actor

2005 A train in Andhra Pradesh, India derails, killing at least 77 people.

2005 At least 61 people are dead and many others wounded in three powerful blasts in the Indian capital, Delhi. See 29 October 205 Delhi bombings for full details.

2006 Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after take off in Nigeria.

2006 Luis Inácio Lula da Silva is re-elected President of Brazil.

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