1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1948 Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands
1948 Juliana of the Netherlands is crowned as Queen.
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1952 The first regular Canadian television broadcasts begin in Montreal.
1959 Mattel's Barbie doll goes on sale for the first time; she's still popular today.
1963 Five SH-3A helicopters of HS-9 based at NAS Quonset rescued 28 workmen from two Texas Towers shaken by gales and heavy seas off Cape Cod.
1966 "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV
1966 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1968 Swaziland becomes an independent member of the British Commonwealth.
1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1972 John &Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum while in New York for the US Open.
1976 Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet, many smiles in the US
1978 Begin &Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 Polish dissidents seize the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 Country music artist Ernest Tubb dies at the age of 70.
1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1986 Barbra Streisand's 1st live concert in 20 years
1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1987 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
