1981 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)

1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH

1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon

1983 A Soviet fighter plane downs a KAL Boeing 747 jumbo jet that veered 100 miles into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people aboard.

1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia &is shot down by a Soviet jet

1985 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland

1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album

1989 Major League Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti dies of a heart attack at age 51.

1989 Princess Anne &Mark Phillips announce their seperation

1995 Opening ceremonies for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame take place in Cleveland, OH.

1920 Lebanon created by France, Beirut becoming the capital

1933 H.G Wells publishes 'The Shape of the Things to Come'

1974 The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird fighter establishes a new record by flying the Atlantic in under 2 hours

1979 Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to flyby the planet Saturn

1985 After 73 years the wreck of the 'Titanic' is found by Dr Robert Ballard

1875 The birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist

1957 The birth of Gloria Estefan, Cuban born Pop singer

2005 Oil prices rise sharply following economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.

2005 Sellapan Ramanathan is sworn-in for a second term of office as the President of Singapore.

2006 A fire kills 29 of 148 people aboard an Iran Air Tours Tu-154M aircraft after the plane lands in Mashhad, Iran.

2007 Finland switches off all of its analogue terrestrial television signals as part of the digital switchover.

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