1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama

1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 &stays #1 for 6 weeks

1967 Residents of Gibraltar vote to remain British and not return to Spain.

1971 Pacific Great Eastern Railway extension from Fort St. John to Fort Nelson, B.C. is opened for traffic.

1971 Shoe-slapping statesman Nikita Krushchev, former Premier of Russia, dies.

1972 Chicago Bears running back Gayle Sayers retires from pro football.

1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship

1972 Heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton, redeeming his loss to Norton in their previous encounter.

1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)

1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton

1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal

1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs

1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard

1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed

1982 Decca releases Beatle audition "The Complete Silver Beatles" album

1982 Pete Rose breaks Hank Aarons's National League record by playing in his 3,077th baseball game.

1983 John Vorster, former prime minister of South Africa, dies in Cape Town at age 67.

1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla

1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)

1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel

1987 Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami to begin a 10 day tour of the US.

1988 Steffi Graf wins US Open, 1st woman Grand Slam since Court (1970)

1989 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship

1989 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary &Czech)

1990 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open

1990 George Bush &Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki

1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada

1990 Iran and Iraq agree to resume full diplomatic ties with one another.

1993 Near Coast of Chiapas, Mexico a 7.3 quake resulted in 1 person killed, 3 injured and considerable damage in southwestern Guatemala

1919 The Austrian Empire ends with the signing of the Treaty of Saint Germain

1979 London talks on the Zimbabwe Rhodesian constitution open

1989 Hungary opens its borders to the West, allowing thousands to leave East Germany

1993 Further agreements reached between the PLO and Israel about self rule in the Gaza Strip

1907 The birth of Fay Wray, US actress

1914 The birth of Robert Wise, American director

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