1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)

1951 Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron 161, equipped with HRS-1s, arrived Pusan, Korea

1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20

1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)

1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service

1963 Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS

1963 CBS &NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes

1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal

1965 The Beatles receive a gold record for the 45-rpm release of Help! (For our younger readers, 45-rpm is the speed that a hit single record revolves on the turntable of a record player.)

1969 North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh dies.

1978 George Harrison marries Olivia

1978 Graham Salmon set the worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man

1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston

1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM

1985 A joint US-French expedition locates the wreckage of the ill-fated HMS Titanic.

1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi

1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan

1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, goes on trial in Russia

1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley

1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst

1998 A Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing 229 people.

1666 A fire in a bakery in Pudding Lane, spread to engulf 13,000 buildings; 'The Great Fire of London'

1945 On board the aircraft carrier 'Missouri', in Tokyo Bay, General Douglas MacArthur accepts the Japanese surrender

1925 The birth of Russ Conway, Popular pianist of the 50's

1952 The birth of Jimmy Connors, American tennis player

2005 Clashes between protesters and Israeli forces in Bil'in.

2005 Death of Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)

2006 A Nimrod MR2 based at RAF Kinloss, Scotland, crashes in the Southern Province of Kandahar, Afghanistan, due to a technical fault. All 14 crew on board were killed.

2007 The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation hosts its 19th annual city meeting in Sydney.

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